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Posted by jeffhergert on Sunday, June 11, 2017 5:04 PM

This morning I saw something I've never seen before.  We (my conductor and myself) saw a white deer.  Others have reported seeing it this year around the top of Blair hill.  It was a first for both of us.

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Posted by JoeKoh on Sunday, June 11, 2017 5:23 AM

Morning

Helped sis yesterday.Matt explained his workcamp trip coming in July to Grandpa.Stopped in Deshler on the way home.Csx was playing who goes first.Go to try to keep my cool today.Fly for Minnesota first thing in the morning.

stay safe

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Posted by Deggesty on Friday, June 9, 2017 8:57 PM

Norm48327

 

 
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Ms Mookie,

We get to see those orange units here from time to time. They usually have a following of one hundred or so coal cars. When they are done with their mission we return them to the sender. Smile

Somehow, that reminds me of a song popular several years back--"Return to Sender," which tells the sad tale of the letter a man sent to the woman he loved.Crying

 

I recall that, Johnny. Address unknown. Return to sender. Makes me feel  old. Too many years ago. We both should have cleared that from our memory banks long ago. Wink

 

Norm, you should live in the same building with a bunch of old fogies. Every now and then one of us will recall this or that which took place many years ago. 

A lady comes in during our lunch time a few times a week, and plays  (on our piano) the songs that were popular when we were young. Some I recall immediately, and I even know some of the words. Others take me a few bars to recognize.

On Friday afternoons, we have what is called "Happy Hour." If you want a glass of wine, that is available, and fruit juice is offered to the teetotalers. About once a month, two ladies come, play acoustic guitars, and one sings a variety of older songs. Also, about once a month, a couple, who call themselves "Stampede" entertain us with an acoustic guitar and a bass fiddle (yes the husband plays the bass), and they sing a mixture, including some western songs. We also have one or two who bring their electric guitars and try to sing (in my estimation, their singing is not worth a plugged penny in either voice or song). From time to time, a man comes to play broadway music on the piano, and comments on the music and the composers. 

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Posted by Mookie on Friday, June 9, 2017 5:12 PM

Summer vacation and the "ugh-oranges" are out sightseeing.  I wish they would either get a good sunburn and turn red or deep, deep tan and turn black....

And to add to the songs:  "Green Door"  "Raunchy" "Teen Beat" - ring any bells? So many from that time, forum would run out of paper listing them all.


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Posted by AgentKid on Friday, June 9, 2017 3:37 PM

Norm48327
We both should have cleared that from our memory banks long ago.

Yikes!

I was minding my own business while playing Solitare on the computer last night when a song popped into my head. There was nothing to do about it but go to Youtube and find the song. Before I knew it I had played "Detroit City" by Babby Bare, "Abilene" by George Hamilton IV, and "Saginaw Michigan" by Lefty Frizzell.

Oddly enough, all from the same time period you fellows were mentioning, just on a different station.

Oddly enough v2.0, the first and second songs aren't even OT for a TRAINS forum.

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Posted by Norm48327 on Friday, June 9, 2017 3:19 PM

Deggesty
Norm48327

Ms Mookie,

We get to see those orange units here from time to time. They usually have a following of one hundred or so coal cars. When they are done with their mission we return them to the sender. Smile

Somehow, that reminds me of a song popular several years back--"Return to Sender," which tells the sad tale of the letter a man sent to the woman he loved.Crying

I recall that, Johnny. Address unknown. Return to sender. Makes me feel  old. Too many years ago. We both should have cleared that from our memory banks long ago. Wink

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Posted by Deggesty on Friday, June 9, 2017 3:14 PM

Norm48327

Ms Mookie,

We get to see those orange units here from time to time. They usually have a following of one hundred or so coal cars. When they are done with their mission we return them to the sender. Smile

 

Somehow, that reminds me of a song popular several years back--"Return to Sender," which tells the sad tale of the letter a man sent to the woman he loved.Crying

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Posted by Norm48327 on Friday, June 9, 2017 3:04 PM

Ms Mookie,

We get to see those orange units here from time to time. They usually have a following of one hundred or so coal cars. When they are done with their mission we return them to the sender. Smile

Norm


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Posted by JoeKoh on Friday, June 9, 2017 2:57 PM

Ns was quiet when I left work.Time to run errands in town.Early rise tomorrow.

stay safe

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Posted by Mookie on Thursday, June 8, 2017 8:28 PM

tree68

 

 
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Joe - BNSF has been very quiet here - now I know why.  They are visiting you!

 

Heard on another, local forum that they are visiting here, too!

 

Maybe that means they will be home on Sunday...  Perfect!

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, June 8, 2017 5:20 PM

Mookie

Joe - BNSF has been very quiet here - now I know why.  They are visiting you!

Heard on another, local forum that they are visiting here, too!

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Posted by Mookie on Thursday, June 8, 2017 5:09 PM

Joe - BNSF has been very quiet here - now I know why.  They are visiting you!

 

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Posted by JoeKoh on Thursday, June 8, 2017 4:51 PM

evening

Ns had a frieght go east with a ns,cp,bnsf combo and a westbound stack train with Bnsf when I left work.Went into town.Csx sent a NS,bnsf tanker train east and a bnsf stack train west.The ND&W was also waiitng to get across FC.Things to do here at home.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by JoeKoh on Wednesday, June 7, 2017 2:27 PM

afternoon

Hopper train is gone.Ns Local was going back west after work.Guessers say Mother Nature is going to warm us up this weekend.Projects to do.

stay safe

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Posted by JoeKoh on Tuesday, June 6, 2017 5:03 PM

evening

Work still busy.Westbound hopper train still in Archbold.Had an intermodal go west when I left work.Much to do here.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by JoeKoh on Monday, June 5, 2017 6:26 PM

evening

work was busy today.Ns had a hopper train westbound in the siding when I left work.Some of the cars were their new high top cars for coke trains.Mowed the swamp when I got home.Chores to do.Haven't got the whole trip details for work for next week yet.I am not going to park my truck at the Detroit airport.Chores to do inside.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by JoeKoh on Saturday, June 3, 2017 11:18 PM

good early Sunday morning.

Had a great time as usual in Deshler. Plenty of trains.Had a Michigan group come down to watch trains too.A gentleman provided his motorhome for transportation.They enjoyed the trains and watching us play games.Csx decided to combine frieghts and unit trains while going around the wyes in Deshler.Q 500 had autoracks behind him.An ethanol train had frieght behind him too.This tired Dad needs to get to bed.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by JoeKoh on Friday, June 2, 2017 3:07 PM

afternoon

Ns was clear when I left work.Getting things ready for Deshler tomorrow.Going to be interesting when the pipeline is ready to go under NS by our building.Everything is set out for it.Need to get back at it.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by tree68 on Friday, June 2, 2017 12:22 PM

mudchicken
When I went home at 6:30, they were just beginning to lift the truck frame onto a lowboy trailer.

Got a tweet with early video of the incident, including the rescue of the driver.  The fire grew quickly, but people just kept passing the scene, until there was fire in their lane...

I see a number of videos of fires taken by bystanders (check out Statter911.com).  It never ceases to amaze me the language these folks use, especially when they know they may post the video on-line.  

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Thursday, June 1, 2017 10:42 PM

mudchicken

When I went home at 6:30, they were just beginning to lift the truck frame onto a lowboy trailer. The rotomill was waiting on the circus around the truck to get out of the way. There were 20+ high-side and Dumpr semis all waiting on the rotomill. They were talking about asphalt 14+ inches deep being toast.Blaw-Knox Spreader box paver was nearby and the media was talking about 100 tons (?) of asphalt being ready by 9pm. We'll see if they get after it.  (Major road construction project on the next exit south is getting a bunch of extra Force Account/ Suspense Account work right now.)

 

UPDATE: Southbound lanes (5) open by 5:30 PM with intermittant closures all night; Northbound lanes (5) opened at 4:15 am the next morning. There will be periodic closures for the next week, mostly at night....Concrete Jersey Barrier gets removed and replaced for 300' and part of that supports a light tower.

Repaved area ( just to get going again) was 350' x 50' x 1.2' on both directions. Far from complete in the repaving process. - No bridges, fortunately.

 

Must be quite the fire. At noon today, FOX network was repeatedly showing film of the tanker burning. Underneath the title was the blurb "HAPPENING NOW!"

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Posted by JoeKoh on Thursday, June 1, 2017 3:14 PM

afternoon

Ns was clear when I left work.Waiting for Mamma and Matt to get home.Chores to do.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by Mookie on Thursday, June 1, 2017 8:12 AM

CSSHEGEWISCH
We don't quite have that problem (no oil or gas fields nearby) but every so often an equipment operator will get careless and slice open a gas or products pipeline that has been properly identified and marked

fiber optic company laying line here in our fair city, has FD and gas co on speed dial.  Almost a daily occurrence.

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Thursday, June 1, 2017 7:14 AM

mudchicken

We've already got exploding houses due to knuckleheads in the construction industry laying sewer and cutting supposebly abandoned oil & gas gathering lines that proved not to be. The reaction to that has been nutso.

 
We don't quite have that problem (no oil or gas fields nearby) but every so often an equipment operator will get careless and slice open a gas or products pipeline that has been properly identified and marked.
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Posted by Norm48327 on Thursday, June 1, 2017 5:52 AM

MC,

In '15, we got caught in rush hour traffic on 76 and 25 while returning from Salida to Loveland. I would imagine the south end of 25 is the same mess during those times.

The repairs of I-85 were amazingly fast, and I understand the prime contractor got a hefty bonus for getting it done so quickly. I hope they get 25 done as quickly.

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Posted by mudchicken on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 10:06 PM

When I went home at 6:30, they were just beginning to lift the truck frame onto a lowboy trailer. The rotomill was waiting on the circus around the truck to get out of the way. There were 20+ high-side and Dumpr semis all waiting on the rotomill. They were talking about asphalt 14+ inches deep being toast.Blaw-Knox Spreader box paver was nearby and the media was talking about 100 tons (?) of asphalt being ready by 9pm. We'll see if they get after it.  (Major road construction project on the next exit south is getting a bunch of extra Force Account/ Suspense Account work right now.)

 

UPDATE: Southbound lanes (5) open by 5:30 PM with intermittant closures all night; Northbound lanes (5) opened at 4:15 am the next morning. There will be periodic closures for the next week, mostly at night....Concrete Jersey Barrier gets removed and replaced for 300' and part of that supports a light tower.

Repaved area ( just to get going again) was 350' x 50' x 1.2' on both directions. Far from complete in the repaving process. - No bridges, fortunately.

Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west
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Posted by CShaveRR on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 9:59 PM

Yesterday I received the good news that I won't be getting chemotherapy after all...at least not for a while.  The medical oncologist to whom I went for a third opinion (to reconcile the other two) said that with the recent radiation I had, my marrow-producing system was undoubtedly compromised, so recovery from doses of chemo would take too long (likely more than the three weeks they give you between doses), so it wouldn't be effective, except in terms of wiping me out.  (Which is precisely my daughter's problem--her marrow production was damaged by the cancer itself, and she had no choice but to go with chemo...and she's paying for it physically now.)  So no chemo until my PSA levels become detectable again (and that could be any time, but some of my friends have gone over twelve years without it happening).

So, on receiving that great news today, I slept in (surprising myself--apparently nervousness was making me tired), then went out to Rochelle.  Despite the fact that one UP track across the diamond was out of service (there were tampers, surfacers, and welders on Track 1), the action was pretty decent.

Headed out there (actually near Dement), I saw a train with trucks, a bus, two tampers, other track equipment, and a large rail laying machine (nearly all on flat cars) headed east, toward Proviso, on the UP.  I wonder where it will be used...I don't think they're ready to put that third track in between River Forest and Melrose Park yet.  Both UP and BNSF were pretty busy over the diamonds, and yes, the new diamonds are pretty quiet.

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 9:55 PM

MC maybe we will find out if it takes Colorado longer on  I-25 than Georgia did on the I-85 replacement ?

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Posted by CShaveRR on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 9:47 PM

The evening news here just showed a down-on shot of a bit of fire, and said the highway was closed.  

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Posted by mudchicken on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 9:24 PM

Yep - about 4 hours. They now have 3-4 guys and a hi-rail bucket truck standing by at the west end of the Orchard station.

Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west
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Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 5:54 PM

mudchicken
With everybody trying to find new N-S routes to get home, hope she's going E-W...Going diagonal accross Denver? -fuggedabowdit, ain't gonna happen today.

Did they shut down the light rail traffic along the 25 for a while?

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