Mookie Murphy Siding Baked beans? Fireworks? phones, notebooks, wife?
Murphy Siding Baked beans? Fireworks?
phones, notebooks, wife?
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
Murphy Siding Mookie Murphy Siding Baked beans? Fireworks? phones, notebooks, wife? Um.... huh?
Um.... huh?
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
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").
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)
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.
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...
It's the weekend and the forum is a tad on the spicey side!
MC's ride on the Iowa Northern that he enjoyed a week ago last Thursday...
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
Mookie 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
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.
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.
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.
blhanel 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.
Murphy Siding 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.
(I can exhale now) and congrats to grandad and the expanding Tin-Shoes Nation!
-with having to figure out DropBox (it seems to have circumvented the mothership's stoopid pedantic IT bandwith & firewall issues - yay!) I might be able to post a picture of IANR's "portable forest" (patent pending/all rights reserved ) at Waterloo.
afternoon
On and off rain today.Csx picked up it's grain train west of town.They also have some tonka toys that need fixing in a siding too.Noticed plenty of lumber coming eastbound through Defiance.Also noticed an "Olivia" grain car.She is going back west.Maybe back to the co-op in Minnesota.Back to work tomorrow.Brian congrats on the family additions.
Hamfest is over - now to finish up with the paperwork (divvying up the money between two organizations, getting a couple of prizes sent out) and we'll be done until next year.
We didn't have the attendance the big Hamfest in Dayton (Xenia) did, but by the sounds of it, we had better weather. Still, for a little event like ours 60+ was a good gate.
I did make a big purchase - a new radio. Pretty expensive, but I could swing it, so I made the plunge. Pretty spiffy - made a digital contact with it this afternoon.
Joe - we got your rain. If it stays light (with no wind), no big deal, but sandbags are still big business here.
Tree: Asking NYPLS if they have a date set....May be Tuesday before I get an answer. (same group where you met me )
Tree: Asking NYPLS if they have a date and place set....May be Tuesday before I get an answer. (same group where you met me )
mudchicken Tree: Asking NYPLS if they have a date and place set....May be Tuesday before I get an answer. (same group where you met me )
Rog - I can think of at least one person who may be able to speak - but an idea of exactly what you're looking for would be very useful. Some of these folks can ramble...
Hey, MC - I was just looking up the location of an auto accident that just occurred in a neighboring district. When I looked at the topo map, I noted something marked "Cape Vincent Base East." It's located on the old railroad bed (N 44 7' 41" W 76 17' 30"). A few hundred yards west is "Cape Vincent Base West," also on the old railroad bed. The ROW wasn't exactly east-west there. Is this some sort of surveying reference point?
tree68 Hey, MC - I was just looking up the location of an auto accident that just occurred in a neighboring district. When I looked at the topo map, I noted something marked "Cape Vincent Base East." It's located on the old railroad bed (N 44 7' 41" W 76 17' 30"). A few hundred yards west is "Cape Vincent Base West," also on the old railroad bed. The ROW wasn't exactly east-west there. Is this some sort of surveying reference point?
Very Old Triangulation Station/ Observation Points! (see the triangle on west, these two also were a measured baseline for a possible trilateration check)
PJ0306 DESIGNATION - CAPE VINCENT E BASE 1874 PJ0306 PID - PJ0306 PJ0306 STATE/COUNTY- NY/JEFFERSON PJ0306 COUNTRY - US PJ0306 USGS QUAD - CAPE VINCENT NORTH (1980)
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HISTORY - Date Condition Report By PJ0306 HISTORY - 1874 MONUMENTED USLS PJ0306 HISTORY - 1940 SEE DESCRIPTION CGS PJ0306 HISTORY - 1957 GOOD IBC PJ0306 HISTORY - 1969 SEE DESCRIPTION CGS PJ0306 HISTORY - 19990728 MARK NOT FOUND USPSQD -skip-
PJ0306'DESCRIBED BY US LAKE SURVEY 1874 PJ0306'ABOUT 2 MILES EAST OF THE TOWN OF CAPE VINCENT. ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF PJ0306'THE NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD TRACK. THE STATION IS 170 FEET PJ0306'NORTHWEST OF A LEANING STONE POST. 110.7 FEET SOUTHWEST OF A STONE PJ0306'POST. 172.6 FEET SOUTHEAST OF A STONE POST. 66.1 FEET EAST OF THE PJ0306'CONCRETE SIGNPOST. 13.6 FEET SOUTH OF THE SOUTH RAIL OF THE TRACK. PJ0306'AND 16.8 FEET NORTH OF THE SOUTH RIGHT - OF - WAY FENCE. PJ0306' PJ0306'STATION MARK--A BRASS PLUG IN A STONE 6 INCHES SQUARE, SET 3 FEET PJ0306'BELOW THE GROUND SURFACE. PJ0306 PJ0306 STATION RECOVERY (1940) PJ0306 PJ0306'RECOVERY NOTE BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1940 PJ0306'ABOUT 2 MILES EAST OF THE TOWN OF CAPE VINCENT. ON THE SOUTH PJ0306'SIDE OF THE NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD TRACK. THE STATION IS PJ0306'170 FEET NORTHWEST OF A LEANING STONE POST. 110.7 FEET PJ0306'SOUTHWEST OF A STONE POST. 172.6 FEET SOUTHEAST OF A STONE PJ0306'POST. 66.1 FEET EAST OF A CONCRETE SIGNPOST. 13.6 FEET SOUTH PJ0306'OF THE SOUTH RAIL OF THE TRACK. AND 16.6 FEET NORTH OF THE PJ0306'SOUTH RIGHT-OF-WAY FENCE. PJ0306' PJ0306'STATION MARK--A BRASS PLUG IN A STONE 6 INCHES SQUARE, SET 3 PJ0306'FEET BELOW THE GROUND SURFACE. PJ0306 PJ0306 STATION RECOVERY (1957) PJ0306 PJ0306'RECOVERY NOTE BY INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY COMMISSION 1957 (NWS) PJ0306'IN 1957 THE RAILROAD RAILS AND REFERENCE POSTS HAD BEEN REMOVED. PJ0306 PJ0306 STATION RECOVERY (1969) PJ0306 PJ0306'RECOVERY NOTE BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1969 (AJR) PJ0306'A SEARCH OF THE AREA WAS MADE, THE RAILROAD TRACK HAS BEEN PJ0306'REMOVED, AND THE TRACK BED IS OVERGROWN WITH BRUSH. PJ0306' PJ0306'REFERENCE AND STATION MARK ARE PRESUMED TO BE LOST. PJ0306 PJ0306 STATION RECOVERY (1999) PJ0306 PJ0306'RECOVERY NOTE BY US POWER SQUADRON 1999 PJ0306'MARK NOT FOUND.
-The mark may still be there, somebody will have to do a detailed recovery effort to prove it has been destroyed by the dreaded yellow machines or just buried. (a surveyor scavenger hunt, if you will... I have found dozens of NGS benchmarks reported as lost or destroyed over the years. I found two in Nebraska that were never officially published and presumed gone.)
Very cool. I won't be going out to look for them.... Seems like you'd have to do a lot of digging, even if the landmarks cited were still there.
A regional waterline was installed using the old railroad bed (Rome & Watertown, then Rome, Watertown & Odgensburg, then NYC)- you can see the pump station just west of the "West Base." The line was trenched right down the old ROW, so even if the monument was still buried at the time, it may not be where it's supposed to be - assuming that it was dug up and simply went back in the ditch and isn't sitting on someone's mantle...
Thanks! Learn something new every day!
Sunshine today.Ns had a truck go east.Do not know what they were checking on but it wasn't a yellow sperry truck. They have loads and empties to switch around uptown.That will be a fun job today.They still haven't installed the new crossing yet.It has been getting seasoned since last summer.Going to help nephew finish up some things tomorrow.Guessers say rain will stay away.
tree68 Very cool. I won't be going out to look for them.... Seems like you'd have to do a lot of digging, even if the landmarks cited were still there. A regional waterline was installed using the old railroad bed (Rome & Watertown, then Rome, Watertown & Odgensburg, then NYC)- you can see the pump station just west of the "West Base." The line was trenched right down the old ROW, so even if the monument was still buried at the time, it may not be where it's supposed to be - assuming that it was dug up and simply went back in the ditch and isn't sitting on someone's mantle... Thanks! Learn something new every day!
PJ0310 DESIGNATION - CAPE VINCENT W BASE 1874 PJ0310 PID - PJ0310 PJ0310 STATE/COUNTY- NY/JEFFERSON PJ0310 COUNTRY - US PJ0310 USGS QUAD - CAPE VINCENT NORTH (1980)
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PJ0310_MARKER: Z = SEE DESCRIPTION PJ0310_SETTING: 80 = SET IN A BOULDER PJ0310_STABILITY: C = MAY HOLD, BUT OF TYPE COMMONLY SUBJECT TO PJ0310+STABILITY: SURFACE MOTION PJ0310 PJ0310 HISTORY - Date Condition Report By PJ0310 HISTORY - 1874 MONUMENTED USLS PJ0310 HISTORY - 1940 SEE DESCRIPTION CGS PJ0310 HISTORY - 1957 GOOD IBC PJ0310 HISTORY - 1969 SEE DESCRIPTION CGS PJ0310 HISTORY - 19990728 MARK NOT FOUND USPSQD PJ0310 PJ0310 STATION DESCRIPTION PJ0310 PJ0310'DESCRIBED BY US LAKE SURVEY 1874 PJ0310'NEAR THE TOWN OF CAPE VINCENT, NEW YORK. ABOUT 1/4 MILE EAST OF CAPE PJ0310'VINCENT ELEVATOR. JUST EAST OF THE RAILROAD YARD LIMITS AND ON THE PJ0310'NORTH SIDE OF THE TRACK. THE STATION IS ABOUT 335 FEET EAST OF THE PJ0310'YARD LIMITS SIGN, 99.7 FEET EAST OF A DRILL HOLE IN A STONE, 71.2 FEET PJ0310'NORTH OF A STONE POST, 99.1 FEET WEST OF A STONE POST, 19.8 FEET NORTH PJ0310'OF NORTH RAIL OF TRACK, AND 54 FEET SOUTH OF NORTH RIGHT - OF - WAY PJ0310'FENCE. PJ0310' PJ0310'STATION MARK--A TRIANGULAR BRASS PLUG IN A STONE POST 6 INCHES SQUARE, PJ0310'SET ABOUT 2 FEET BELOW THE GROUND SURFACE. PJ0310 PJ0310 STATION RECOVERY (1940) PJ0310 PJ0310'RECOVERY NOTE BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1940 PJ0310'NEAR THE TOWN OF CAPE VINCENT, NEW YORK. ABOUT 1/4 MILE EAST PJ0310'OF CAPE VINCENT ELEVATOR. JUST EAST OF THE RAILROAD YARD LIMITS PJ0310'AND ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE TRACK. THE STATION IS ABOUT 335 PJ0310'FEET EAST OF THE YARD LIMITS SIGN, 99.7 FEET EAST OF A DRILL PJ0310'HOLE IN STONE, 71.2 FEET NORTH OF A STONE POST, 99.1 FEET WEST PJ0310'OF A STONE POST, 19.8 FEET NORTH OF NORTH RAIL OF TRACK, AND PJ0310'54 FEET SOUTH OF NORTH RIGHT-OF-WAY FENCE. PJ0310' PJ0310'STATION MARK--A TRIANGULAR BRASS PLUG IN A STONE POST 6 INCHES PJ0310'SQUARE, SET ABOUT 2 FEET BELOW THE GROUND SURFACE. PJ0310 PJ0310 STATION RECOVERY (1957) PJ0310 PJ0310'RECOVERY NOTE BY INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY COMMISSION 1957 (NWS) PJ0310'IN 1957 THE RAILROAD RAILS HAD BEEN REMOVED. PJ0310 PJ0310 STATION RECOVERY (1969) PJ0310 PJ0310'RECOVERY NOTE BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1969 (AJR) PJ0310'A THOROUGH SEARCH OF THE AREA WAS MADE. ALL REFERENCES HAVE PJ0310'BEEN DESTROYED, THE TRACK HAS BEEN REMOVED AND THE TRACK BED IS PJ0310'BECOMING PART OF THE LANDSCAPE. THE STATION SHOULD BE PJ0310'CONSIDERED LOST. PJ0310 PJ0310 STATION RECOVERY (1999) PJ0310 PJ0310'RECOVERY NOTE BY US POWER SQUADRON 1999 PJ0310'MARK NOT FOUND.
I suspect Sir Chicken has all his information memorized.... just suspect, mind you....
Mookie I suspect Sir Chicken has all his information memorized.... just suspect, mind you....
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BOB WITHORN 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. 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.
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.
I guess I was lucky when it came to baling hay, our square baler had an ejector on it, and I was the one who ran the baler. I did have to usually pack the last wagon of the day, though: kick in about 20-25 bales, stop and climb into hayrack to stack, kick in another batch, and repeat until full, or I ran out of hay in the field..........
Randy Vos
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