JoeKoh MC Sorry,people around here are having too much fun driving under the flooded viaducts.(Jefferson and Wayne) stay safe Joe
MC
Sorry,people around here are having too much fun driving under the flooded viaducts.(Jefferson and Wayne)
stay safe
Joe
blue streak 1Is anyone else having the annoying habit of this forum loosing the read threads indication. Sometimes all or some of threads read will turn black when read or posted then next time site opened they are back red. Even when last post was by this poster. Tried the all read function and still sometimes same. Note happens randomly for different subject lines.
Just a quirk of Kalmbach trying to reinvent the forum software wheel on their own rather than using vendors stable forum software.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Is anyone else having the annoying habit of this forum loosing the read threads indication. Sometimes all or some of threads read will turn black when read or posted then next time site opened they are back red. Even when last post was by this poster. Tried the all read function and still sometimes same. Note happens randomly for different subject lines.
mudchicken(recovering nicely from the last two weekends of "Thomas". )
I know exactly where you're coming from...
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...
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'll be more than happy to accomodate some of that surplus water over here.
(recovering nicely from the last two weekends of "Thomas". )
afternoon
Well Csx had some trains today.Found out the y101 is coming back to work the yard here in Defiance.The ND&W 1603 came over and went back across the diamond at FC today too with cars for NS.Mother nature decided to add more water to the swamp.Going to the fireworks tonight.Tomorrow it's a picnic with Matt's cousins.
joe
Well, this week started off with a bang..........
Pulled into a truck stop Sunday afternoon, shut truck off, went inside, came back out, turned the key and.....
Click. Starter died........
Got pull-started, drove here to Wintersville, OH, where Schneider has a shop inside the Walmart distribution center, truck is in the shop having the starter changed.
Hopefully, the week will get better............
Randy Vos
"Ever have one of those days where you couldn't hit the ground with your hat??" - Waylon Jennings
"May the Lord take a liking to you and blow you up, real good" - SCTV
Good weekend on the railroad - plenty of riders, for sure. Saturday started out kinda wet (not as wet as further south), but dried out soon enough. Sunday was warm and humid - but liveable.
The folks along and south of the NYS Thruway certainly got hammered. One major road in Utica was closed, with cars afloat, and plenty of other places had water in amounts not usually seen.
Started working on replacing the flagpole. If I get the concrete in early enough Monday, maybe I'll get it done in time to fly the flag for the 4th.
Csx was busy this morning.Going to let the swamp dry today.Will get the mower out tomorrow.
evening
Happy Canada Day.Ran an errand for nephew and thought we might get washed out again tonight.The rain went south.We still had to go around some high water to get to his place.On the way home there was plenty of law officers watching.Ns had a westbound waiting in the siding at Latty Ohio.Plenty of people were shooting off fireworks on the way home too.Time for bed.
Afternoon
Ns had an eastbound sand train with 2 cn units and a BCOL cowl unit(4601) between them.Carl you would have loved some of the marks on those cars for sure.We are under a flash flood warning.Might need the boat to go to a party tomorrow night.Matt and I filled out the paperwork for the insurance.($$$$) Glad he is on the honor roll.chores to do tonight.
BOB WITHORNOnce the proud home of 4 GM divisions and the place that started GM.
I used to see train after train of auto parts headed through Milford, which is on the now-Saginaw sub (former PM). In the 20 minutes it took me to walk to school (uphill, both ways), C&O would fleet three trains through town.
Finally home. Wednesday evening's weather in northern Illinois really screwed things up at O'Hare. We were probably still an hour from take off (but lined up on the taxiway) when the crew discovered a fuel balance problem and we headed back to the gate. Turned out they couldn't fix it, or find another plane, so I left there Thursday AM for Philly, where I got another flight to Syracuse.
They supposedly had cots for us, but I opted to head for my gate instead and try to get some shuteye there. I dozed some, but O'Hare is not a quiet place even at night.
I'm going to sleep well tonight. Even after stopping in a rest area on the way home for a nap...
I've been hearing how hard-hit northern Illinois was (the Newswire has a story about the Illinois Railway Museum flooding--equipment is okay, thankfully!). We had 0.2 inches here in the Green Valley (that was last night...there were 0.3 inches more earlier in the day). There were some pretty good breezes here--some acquaintances of ours over by the tracks lost a large tree in their front yard; their wrap-around porch broke its fall...I may have to go by there tomorrow and see what else broke.I'm having a busy time with equipment sightings this week. One train in LaGrange Sunday afternoon showed a 300-car block of UTLX tank cars going to Wells Fargo Rail (286 cars left from UTLX 301000-301299, going to WFRX 116214-116499), and large bunch of CNW covered hoppers going to CAI Rail (the 950 cars left in CNW series 490000-490999 are being relettered CAIX, same numbers). In case you can't tell, this is the kind of thing I live for!
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)
Ns was clear when i left work.
Mother nature is trying to blow something in.Matt is now able to drive by himself.If he plans a trip to Deshler he best take me along.More gray hair to come.
I'm sorry. It seems that a man down at Brian Head (way south of here) was burning shrubs aroud his cabin with a torch, and it got away from him. A man passing by called 911 and said, "...the fire is massive. I think a Brian Head officer needs to go to the cabin immediately and talk to this landowner immediatley before he burns down Brian Head." A second 911 call was from someone at the scene, asking for help since the fire was out of control.
The fire started twelve days ago.
Johnny
Good to hear you folks ducked just in time. Now if Johnny would just quit blowing smoke over this way! (so thick the mountains vanished...hopefully rain late tonight to wash it out.)
JoeKoh Iowa friends might need to duck and cover.
Iowa friends might need to duck and cover.
Dodged a bullet here- tornado touched down just 13 miles north of us, nailed the little town of Prairieburg.
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
BaltACD mudchicken Watching the news regarding the two CSX fatalities outside Washington Union Station. As usual the newsworkers can't get the facts straight. Assuming the hour, was this a pair of signal maintainers or operating crew? My understanding is that it was Train Crew returning to the head end of their train after being stopped by a Hot Box Detector. No real facts yet. At the site of the incident all four main tracks (2 CSX & 2 Amtrak) are parallel. Before I retired, it was customary for crews on the ground to request from the Dispatcher 'blocking protection' on an adjacent track so they could safely walk the track in the inspection of their train. Note-CSX Dispatchers cannot protect Amtrak tracks and vice versa.
mudchicken Watching the news regarding the two CSX fatalities outside Washington Union Station. As usual the newsworkers can't get the facts straight. Assuming the hour, was this a pair of signal maintainers or operating crew?
My understanding is that it was Train Crew returning to the head end of their train after being stopped by a Hot Box Detector. No real facts yet. At the site of the incident all four main tracks (2 CSX & 2 Amtrak) are parallel. Before I retired, it was customary for crews on the ground to request from the Dispatcher 'blocking protection' on an adjacent track so they could safely walk the track in the inspection of their train. Note-CSX Dispatchers cannot protect Amtrak tracks and vice versa.
Ns had the local uptown and a big frieght in the siding when I left work.Getting muggy out.Looked at the weather.Iowa friends might need to duck and cover.Matt took care of the yardwork uptown.Getting stuff around for the weekend.
The mention in the Trains Newswire said that investigators are looking into any communication between the two dispatchers concerning the situation. It sounds like a defect detector inspection, all right...Here's the quote (I hope I'm not in trouble for this!):National Transportation Safety Board investigators are looking specifically into what a CSX Transportation dispatcher may have told an Amtrak dispatcher in the minutes leading up to a fatal accident late Tuesday.
mudchickenWatching the news regarding the two CSX fatalities outside Washington Union Station. As usual the newsworkers can't get the facts straight. Assuming the hour, was this a pair of signal maintainers or operating crew?
Well the wind did swing around and now the fire has grown to 21.000 acres. More fire fighters are on the way. The 2 heavy fire bombers are on the go from sun up to sun down. The air boss circles in his little plane and sees where to drop next load. The 2 planes don't get in the way of each other which makes air boss happy. So far, here in Malfunction Junction (Cordes) we are ok and now there is ash falling from 25mi. away. The firemen have medics there to care for them if needed. The talking "newsheads" can't get it straight when they never leave the station. One of my friends is a fire fighter and he don't say much. Cannonball
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
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Bob,
Being a Waterford native I try to avoid downtown Flint.
Norm, It's mostly U of M Flint now. The only operation of any size other then them is the Mott Foundation. Citizens Bank is long gone. Saginaw St., the Brick Road, might as well be a 2 track dirt path as bad as the condition is. It's a shame, Once the proud home of 4 GM divisions and the place that started GM. The original Buick plants, the original Chevrolet plants, the original Fischer Body plants, the original AC Spark Plug plants, the original GM Parts Div. plants. All had rail yards to support them with HUGE rail volumn. GONE, except the complex on southeast corner of I75 and I69 near the airport, (the one in the news because of the knife attack).
Spent a lot of time in those GM plants. We sold them a lot of supplies. At one time I had a pass to walk in to Buick and inspect our equipment along the Buick assembly lines. It was different. Now I DON'T GO DOWNTOWN!! and I grew up there. Retiring soon and headed to SW Michigan/N. Indiana instead.
BaltACDDumb phone - doesn't know where you are
I get all of the fire and EMS calls, too. At least I know what I'm missing. Besides, I'll have to make out the reports when I get back...
BaltACD tree68 The fire is all over the Phoenix news. 4400 acres is on the order of 7 square miles (640 acres per square mile) - pretty significant. This fire is also not far from where the Prescott Hotshots lost their lives. Phoenix is a little cooler today - I think it topped out at +109F or so. Tomorrow I jump on the plane home, and into cooler temps. Good thing I left a sweatshirt in my truck. They did get a number of thunderstorms today - my phone kept lighting up with warnings... Dumb phone - doesn't know where you are
tree68 The fire is all over the Phoenix news. 4400 acres is on the order of 7 square miles (640 acres per square mile) - pretty significant. This fire is also not far from where the Prescott Hotshots lost their lives. Phoenix is a little cooler today - I think it topped out at +109F or so. Tomorrow I jump on the plane home, and into cooler temps. Good thing I left a sweatshirt in my truck. They did get a number of thunderstorms today - my phone kept lighting up with warnings...
This fire is also not far from where the Prescott Hotshots lost their lives.
Phoenix is a little cooler today - I think it topped out at +109F or so. Tomorrow I jump on the plane home, and into cooler temps. Good thing I left a sweatshirt in my truck. They did get a number of thunderstorms today - my phone kept lighting up with warnings...
Dumb phone - doesn't know where you are
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
tree68The fire is all over the Phoenix news. 4400 acres is on the order of 7 square miles (640 acres per square mile) - pretty significant. This fire is also not far from where the Prescott Hotshots lost their lives. Phoenix is a little cooler today - I think it topped out at +109F or so. Tomorrow I jump on the plane home, and into cooler temps. Good thing I left a sweatshirt in my truck. They did get a number of thunderstorms today - my phone kept lighting up with warnings...
The fire is all over the Phoenix news. 4400 acres is on the order of 7 square miles (640 acres per square mile) - pretty significant.
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