afternoon
Yep the Astros won.Thanks for the trivia too.Ns had a freight in the siding and a stack train go by when I left work.Plenty of work to do.Wonder what it's going to look like in the morning.Chores to do here at home.Seeing the news about CSX.Feel bad for all the people stuck in the middle.
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").
World Series trivia: the Houston Astros are the first team to play in the World Series representing each league (NL in 2005, AL in 2017).
tree68None of my favorite teams are in the Series this year, but I'm rooting for Houston anyhow.
I suspect that town is noisy at this point, unlike the Dodger offense tonight. I suspect Ed and a lot of his neighbors are smiling big about now.
JoeKohHope Ed's local team can win tonight.
None of my favorite teams are in the Series this year, but I'm rooting for Houston anyhow.
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JoeKoh afternoon Local was uptown when I left work.Calling for rain to move in.Chores to do.Will be watching game 7 of the world series.Hope Ed's local team can win tonight. stay safe joe
Local was uptown when I left work.Calling for rain to move in.Chores to do.Will be watching game 7 of the world series.Hope Ed's local team can win tonight.
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Norm48327Milk chocolate sucks.
Agree 300%. Just read the ingredient list, most things called 'milk chocolate' have very little remaining from the original bean. Hershey is a chocolate abuser. Not at all a sweet chocolate eater, but I keep some in the fridge for making mole and such.
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Norm48327 Murphy Siding You could unload some of it at my house. Dinner I'll pass on the dark chocolate. Norris, I'll PM you my shipping address and even pay the shipping. Dark chocolate is the staff of life. Milk chocolate sucks.
Murphy Siding You could unload some of it at my house. Dinner I'll pass on the dark chocolate.
Norris,
I'll PM you my shipping address and even pay the shipping. Dark chocolate is the staff of life. Milk chocolate sucks.
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Larry,
You didn't share. You're rotten to the core as am I. I'd kill for dark.
Norm
Norm48327I'll PM you my shipping address and even pay the shipping. Dark chocolate is the staff of life. Milk chocolate sucks.
That was me, and I just ate the last one....
Murphy SidingYou could unload some of it at my house. Dinner I'll pass on the dark chocolate.
Murphy Siding tree68 Murphy Siding Anybody want a Kit Kat bar? How about a Krackle or Mr. Goodbar? I'll keep the Special Dark for myself... Discovered it was after dark and I hadn't turned the porch light on yet, which may have diminished my numbers slightly - had all of five. I have a few other places I can unload some of the extra candy. You could unload some of it at my house. I'll pass on the dark chocolate.
tree68 Murphy Siding Anybody want a Kit Kat bar? How about a Krackle or Mr. Goodbar? I'll keep the Special Dark for myself... Discovered it was after dark and I hadn't turned the porch light on yet, which may have diminished my numbers slightly - had all of five. I have a few other places I can unload some of the extra candy.
Murphy Siding Anybody want a Kit Kat bar?
How about a Krackle or Mr. Goodbar? I'll keep the Special Dark for myself...
Discovered it was after dark and I hadn't turned the porch light on yet, which may have diminished my numbers slightly - had all of five. I have a few other places I can unload some of the extra candy.
You could unload some of it at my house. I'll pass on the dark chocolate.
Had our last goblin about 1930, wind was kicking up, and apparently the 'escorts' had retreated to their vehicular warmth. The wife had laid in a pretty good supply of packaged candy (WAAAY, too much! )
So now what? I cannot eat that stuff, and the 'grands' are generally, are already 'over sugared' anyway...... Maybe will fill Christmas stockings??? I guess Warren had given as many off as possible to be with their kids on Halloween. Only traffic last night was a couple of long, JBH stackers, and they were not letting any 'grass' grow under them[ gave that high speed switch, a work out! Even the usual 'early train' has not come through'.. Happy October 1st, To ALL !
Miningman I had 79, down from last years 124. Heavy snowfall over last 2 days and -12C temperature, felt bad for the urchins but they got through! Never forget one kid, dressed in white robes and green leaf laurel around his head....I said "Oh look it's Socrates"....he answered with some disdain..."No I am Plato" Well, excussssee me!
I had 79, down from last years 124. Heavy snowfall over last 2 days and -12C temperature, felt bad for the urchins but they got through!
Never forget one kid, dressed in white robes and green leaf laurel around his head....I said "Oh look it's Socrates"....he answered with some disdain..."No I am Plato"
Well, excussssee me!
Murphy SidingAnybody want a Kit Kat bar?
Just about the quietest Halloween ever, about 60 kids. Must be the 36 degree temperature. Kids these days! We would have just dressed up as eskimos and kept running to keep warm. Anybody want a Kit Kat bar?
We were forecast 0% chance of moisture and got a wide swath of big snowflakes for about an hour. Nothing stuck; was pretty. Still....
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Mookie NO NO NO - we are not ready for snow!
Clearly the drivers on the Interstate here weren't either - and it didn't actually snow. Just sleet and rain. Quite a few of them still managed to find ditches and guardrails...
It was a good, old lake effect band. Sun at my house...
NO NO NO - we are not ready for snow!
Ns had an eastbound empty coke hopper train.Also the locals empties were out as I left work as well.Saw a rear ender fender bender as well on the way home.No one was hurt.They were waiting for the police to come and fill out the reports.Guys truck bumper didn't look bad.The car behind had more plastic on the road.Guy at work told me about bad ties at NS.Seems their supplier didn't give them enough treatment.Wonder how many ties will need replaced.Chores to do.
Snow in north Georgia. Even just an October dusting caught many unprepared. probably some bumper car amusement rides ? 31 degrees south of ATL with heavy frost and some freezing.
Ns had a train in the siding.They also had empties to pick up uptown.Mother nature looks like it might snow.Chores to do.
tree68I also remember them dumping some ballast by chaining open the hopper door and throwing a tie in front of the rear truck as they pushed the car along...
I, too, remember that. The tie was actually chained to the body of the car so it could be pulled along just ahead of the rear truck (and not get caught underneath the wheels). Once they opened the hopper doors it wasn't easy to control the flow of the ballast from an ordinary hopper car. But when I saw this being done it was on a new spur, with no ballast originally under the ties. So after the car was emptied, it was a matter of jacking and tamping, and what initially looked like too much ballast turned out to be just about right.
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Scanner busy with pump details, so thought I'd ought to check my basement. Went to the fire station to grab a pump - 4" of water in the basement. Haven't had that happen in years, like since last time we got a lot of rain in very short order. Storm total right now is over 3", and it's not letting up soon...
blue streak 1 Often wondered if that magnet would mess up any part of signal systems
Often wondered if that magnet would mess up any part of signal systems
I would opine not as it applies to block occupancy and crossing protection. Those both function via a shunt (cars and locomotives) between the rails.
Even inductive systems (for cab signals) would not be affected.
If there's some sort of track mounted transducer, maybe, but I'm sure that would be considered.
tree68Two big saws cut the ties into thirds. The two arms pushed out the outer portions, while another device picked up the middle part and kicked it out. Every now and then I'll see old ties along a ROW that exhibit that.
Could it be that this method was used where there wasn't enough clearance to simply pull the whole tie out to one side? It seems like doing it the hard way to me.
(edit:) It just occurred to me that they would still have to get the new tie in in one piece, so lack of clearance wouldn't have been the issue. Never mind.
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I know I've posted this before, but my one take-away from watching a C&O tie gang in Milford in the early sixties was how they took the old ties out.
Two big saws cut the ties into thirds. The two arms pushed out the outer portions, while another device picked up the middle part and kicked it out. Every now and then I'll see old ties along a ROW that exhibit that.
I also remember them dumping some ballast by chaining open the hopper door and throwing a tie in front of the rear truck as they pushed the car along...
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