Forgot to mention in my previous post that, later that same evening, Joanie and I became grandparents to twins. Boy and girl, William Oliver and Margaret Joyce. Babies, big brother Stuart, and parents are all doing well.
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
Just got home from graduation. Youngest son now out of high school. 'Going to work the 12:00-2:00 shift at the senior all-nighter party.
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
Norm, I can do a lot of things but ignoring you would not be one of them!
Weekends tend to be a little dull, so a little snap on the forum is always appreciated.
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Mookie It's the weekend and the forum is a tad on the spicey side!
It's the weekend and the forum is a tad on the spicey side!
Mookie,
Without spice life would be dull and spaghetti wouldn't be Italian. Just funnin' ya girl. I'm in one of those raucous moods tonight. Ignore me and carry on.
Norm
MC's ride on the Iowa Northern that he enjoyed a week ago last Thursday...
Where? Might have an idea or two...
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
81 degrees in Tucson, Talked out and headed home at Oh-Dawn-Thirty.
Have to see if tree or LC or somebody in NY knows a good local railroad historian that can put on a 90-minute chat for a bunch of wannabe mudchickens.
We had rain for much of the day today, with strong breezes and temperaures that didn't get out of the 40s. Naturally, that would be the day that we had to (1) take two guided tours through Lilacia Park in the morning (doubly disappointing...the weather and the fact that the lilacs themselves are pretty well past their prime), and (2) use our tickets to the annual House Walk in the afternoon. If I don't have a cold after this, I'll be amazed. We've had about a half-inch so far today.Yesterday was a day for train-riding and signal confusion. I wanted to get a video of a scoot going through the crossovers at Grace. This is complicated by the fact that I wanted to do it from the cab car. So I was waiting in Glen Ellyn for a block signal to display an Advance Aproach Clear Fifty for a scoot to go through the crossover (this signal gives an Advance Approach for the control point; it has a second head that should have displayed a green under the flashing yellow). What I was getting every time a scoot would come along was a clear signal, which suggested to me that the train would not be crossing over two signals ahead. Well, as it turns out, there's no such thing as an Advance Approach Clear Fifty. I had finally given up on getting the signal I wanted, and went back home, only to find that the signal at Finley was displaying an Approach Clear Fifty (yellow over green), and I wasn't taking the video I wanted. So, I'll do without the full sequence in my presentations next week. Fun fact: Tropicana got fifty mechanical refrigerator cars from Wisconsin Central in 2000 (yes, WC had mechanical reefers), and transferred them all to UP in 2002. At the same time, UP also got the other 50 WC mechanical reefers.
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
evening
Had some rain pass through Nw Ohio.Last night was a bad night for counties just south of us.Tomorrow we are helping nephew.Ns still had a coal train and some switching to do when I left work.
stay safe
Joe
Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").
Murphy Siding Mookie Murphy Siding Baked beans? Fireworks? phones, notebooks, wife? Um.... huh?
Mookie Murphy Siding Baked beans? Fireworks? phones, notebooks, wife?
Murphy Siding Baked beans? Fireworks?
phones, notebooks, wife?
Um.... huh?
Bob do you remember those not so strenious days of cutting silagewith a tractor and blown into a side discharge gravity (v) shape buggy and hauled to the silo to theconvayer to fill the silo. The corn was still green and wet .That silage kept the livestock warm in the winter when fed to them.~~~~~ One other benefit was a gallon jug with a cob stuck in the neck to filter the juice as the silage above was squeesed into the jug. The jugs were placed at levals by the silo doors. From June toDecember the juice fermented, it wasn't till Feb . the first jug was "harvested" . Somehow, the cold did not seem so bad as we watched the train head for Circleville as we sipped the squeez. There seems to be something about a distant steamers whistle on a cold winter night. Days long gone by as well for the Y6bs doublehead coal drag to Columbus.
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
Mookie BaltACD I was really thinking like Norm; can't wrap my mind around missles racing thru the middle of Nebraska heading to the west coast behind canned peaches...
BaltACD
I was really thinking like Norm; can't wrap my mind around missles racing thru the middle of Nebraska heading to the west coast behind canned peaches...
No matter if you can wrap your mind around it - there are large quantities of military ordinence that move by rail on a routine basis for a variety of military reasons.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
....carefull, the cat is gonna make me 1.6 placcard the Frod Exploder every time I get into Nebrasky.
Explosives can fall into any of six classes:
1.1 Explosives with a mass explosion hazard
1.2 Explosives with a projection hazard
1.3 Explosives with predominantly a fire hazard
1.4 Explosives with no significant blast hazard
1.5 Very insensitive explosives with a mass explosion hazard
1.6 Extremely insensitive articles
All use an orange "explosives" placard. The number is what makes the difference.
Think about pheasant season in the fall or Wyoming getting ready to invade Nebrasky (get the ammo consession for both sides)
BaltACDCruise Missles headed to the ports to replensih the Navy's supply that was launched against Syria?
MookieSaw Hunt train - a few containers w/explosive marked on side. What might this be?
Cruise Missles headed to the ports to replensih the Navy's supply that was launched against Syria?
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Saw Hunt train - a few containers w/explosive marked on side. What might this be?
Murphy SidingBaked beans? Fireworks?
Mookie Saw Hunt train - a few containers w/explosive marked on side. What might this be?
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tree68 Murphy Siding I got paid $10 a day, We got a buck an hour - other farmers paid a penny a bale. I was actually on vacation - the $19 I made seemed like gold. Sometimes we loaded directly off the baler - easy. Other times we had to load off the ground. Trying to get a bale up 4 layers high on the wagon was a chore. Unloaded to an elevator - I never had the "opportunity" to work in the mow. Thank goodness... Tree, you missed so much not going up there. We NORMALLY baled directly to the wagon and I was ok until the wagon was just about full. It took all I had to hook the last few bales off the baler and lift them up, stack them under myself, repeat until loaded. Really a challange when we turned just as a bale was ready to come off, dead lift a 50 lb bale straight up with one arm!! When we finished the field, I got the pleasure of going up in the mow to catch the bales 'thrown' up from the conveyor by the hired hands so I could stack them all over again. I was also the one that got to cut the field then rake it over twice before we ever started baling. Darn hard work but very fond memories of the farm in Romeo, Mi. ADD on: My brother and I got $25.00/week, for 12 hours/day and 7 days/week. Do not understand how he got the same, all he did was help unload the wagons onto the conveyor. Grandma's favorite, and I'm the middle child I guess.
Murphy Siding I got paid $10 a day,
We got a buck an hour - other farmers paid a penny a bale. I was actually on vacation - the $19 I made seemed like gold.
Sometimes we loaded directly off the baler - easy. Other times we had to load off the ground. Trying to get a bale up 4 layers high on the wagon was a chore.
Unloaded to an elevator - I never had the "opportunity" to work in the mow. Thank goodness...
Tree, you missed so much not going up there. We NORMALLY baled directly to the wagon and I was ok until the wagon was just about full. It took all I had to hook the last few bales off the baler and lift them up, stack them under myself, repeat until loaded. Really a challange when we turned just as a bale was ready to come off, dead lift a 50 lb bale straight up with one arm!! When we finished the field, I got the pleasure of going up in the mow to catch the bales 'thrown' up from the conveyor by the hired hands so I could stack them all over again. I was also the one that got to cut the field then rake it over twice before we ever started baling. Darn hard work but very fond memories of the farm in Romeo, Mi.
ADD on: My brother and I got $25.00/week, for 12 hours/day and 7 days/week. Do not understand how he got the same, all he did was help unload the wagons onto the conveyor. Grandma's favorite, and I'm the middle child I guess.
We also had the thrill of being in western South Dakota that has rattlesnakes. We'd usually disturb a couple of rattlers every time we baled hay. The farmer was a tough guy. All you had to do was yell “snake!” He’d stop the tractor, grab his shovel and kill the rattler. Oddly, the man scared to death of mice.
Coal train still in the siding.Local was uptown moving cars again.Came home and mowed the swamp.Felt a few sprinkles but the rain for now is to our south.Glad tomorrow is Friday.Saturday Matt and I are going to help nephew put finishing touches on his property.First great niece graduates high school this year.Where does the time go??
joe
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Murphy SidingI got paid $10 a day,
BOB WITHORN When we baled, there was only the standard 16" x 18" x 36" bale, none of the jumbos or rounds. Baled about 100 acres at around 65 bales or so per acre in the 1960's. Guess who got to stack the wagons. Man, I was in great shape by the end of the summer.
When we baled, there was only the standard 16" x 18" x 36" bale, none of the jumbos or rounds. Baled about 100 acres at around 65 bales or so per acre in the 1960's. Guess who got to stack the wagons. Man, I was in great shape by the end of the summer.
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Sixty-five years ago, I would occasionally sell a bale of hay where I worked. If you needed new shoes (and nails) for your horse or mule, a new point for your plow, a sack of Portland cement, a peck of cornmeal, a pack of cigarettes, a cut or plug of tobacco, canned goods, dried beans, overalls, school notebook paper, a sack (100 pounds) of flour, a sack of cow feed, yard goods for your wife, and so on, I could help you.
Johnny,
A General Store, I miss those. Sears came close but not the same. In the 50's into the 60's my grandmother, (farm boss), would take us to one to get jeans, T shirts, socks, leather boots and gloves and pick up cat food, dog food, baling twine, maybe a pitch fork and thermos. I think it was in Armada, Mi. Oh, by the way, it's ArmAda, long a not short like the Nisson truck thing.
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