Trains.com

Chatterbox Winter 2017-2018

25935 views
455 replies
1 rating 2 rating 3 rating 4 rating 5 rating
  • Member since
    April 2003
  • From: Defiance Ohio
  • 13,319 posts
Posted by JoeKoh on Monday, February 26, 2018 5:26 PM

evening

Work busy.Ns continues to crossover the old "NYC" signals along the line.They did the signal bridge at 327 today.Saw a westbound stack train after work.Cars are ready for the local to pick up as well.Chores to do.

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").

 

  • Member since
    April 2003
  • From: Defiance Ohio
  • 13,319 posts
Posted by JoeKoh on Sunday, February 25, 2018 5:30 PM

evening

Watched Ns as they took down the old "NYC" signals.They were going to work on milepost 327 but Mother Nature sent wind today.They were also fixing a broken rail in the crossing in Stryker as well.We then went down to CSX and found some trains too.Back to work tomorrow.

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").

 

  • Member since
    April 2003
  • From: Defiance Ohio
  • 13,319 posts
Posted by JoeKoh on Saturday, February 24, 2018 4:04 PM

Larry

CSX how tomorrow moves..

They were not moving very well around Lima last night.Got word that Ns would be working on putting up the new signals between Wauseon and Archbold tomorrow.Might go look after church.Friend in Cincinnati says the city has closed many flood gates around town.More rain for us here tonight.

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").

 

  • Member since
    December 2001
  • From: Northern New York
  • 25,021 posts
Posted by tree68 on Saturday, February 24, 2018 3:17 PM

ChuckCobleigh
Now you've made me want to pull out "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence"...

Actually, you've got to find "Scott Pilgrim vs the World..."

Whodathunk department:

I was watching the Deshler railcam a couple of nights ago when a train made the transfer from northbound to eastbound.  On the train were a number of cars of steel - I beams, other shapes (it was dark).

Fast forward to this morning.  I was enjoying breakfast with a group of amateur radio operators, including a fellow who works for a steel fabrication company.  I asked if he was expecting some steel, and sure enough he was.  Further discussion brought us to the conclusion that what I saw on the railcam was very likely the same steel he'll be seeing in a couple of days at his place of business...

LarryWhistling
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...

  • Member since
    December 2001
  • From: Sunny (mostly) San Diego
  • 1,920 posts
Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Friday, February 23, 2018 5:34 PM

tree68
That's OK, Pilgrim.

Thanks.  Now you've made me want to pull out "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence" for a good watching, though I'll have to wait for the Olympics to get done to get screen time.

  • Member since
    December 2001
  • From: Northern New York
  • 25,021 posts
Posted by tree68 on Friday, February 23, 2018 1:52 PM

ChuckCobleigh
Well, the one I used turned out to be under the bed hiding among the dust bunnies.  Crafty little devils, those emoticons.

That's OK, Pilgrim.

LarryWhistling
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...

  • Member since
    November 2005
  • 4,190 posts
Posted by wanswheel on Friday, February 23, 2018 1:46 PM

Miningman

 -43 here

Send some of that to your curling team maybe they'll win the bronze. USA!

  • Member since
    December 2001
  • From: Sunny (mostly) San Diego
  • 1,920 posts
Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Friday, February 23, 2018 11:36 AM

zugmann
You spent TWO minutes looking for an emoticon.  That's TWO minutes, ha..ha..ha... (Ok, it loses something when typed out). 

Well, the one I used turned out to be under the bed hiding among the dust bunnies.  Crafty little devils, those emoticons.

  • Member since
    January 2002
  • From: Canterlot
  • 9,575 posts
Posted by zugmann on Friday, February 23, 2018 6:02 AM

ChuckCobleigh
EDIT: Great! I spend two minutes looking for an appropriate emoticon and Zugs gets on ahead of me!

Great minds and all that.

You spent TWO minutes looking for an emoticon.  That's TWO minutes, ha..ha..ha... (Ok, it loses something when typed out). 

 

It's been fun.  But it isn't much fun anymore.   Signing off for now. 


  

The opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer, any other railroad, company, or person.t fun any

  • Member since
    September 2013
  • 6,199 posts
Posted by Miningman on Friday, February 23, 2018 12:25 AM

Yes yes of course. 150 car trains every hour both directions. 3,600 cars a day x2....7,200 cars a day. Landmark buisness! ...and all you have to do is open the doors and hatches. No unloading, nothing. 

I suppose we could add some 'atmospherics' to make us all a bit happier and carefree but we don't want any trouble at the border. 

  • Member since
    July 2010
  • From: Louisiana
  • 2,310 posts
Posted by Paul of Covington on Thursday, February 22, 2018 11:56 PM

Miningman
A temperature pipeline! ...Northern Saskatchewan to New Orleans, one in each direction.

   Heresy!   On a trains forum you're suggesting pipelines?   Fill unit trains of reefers with cold air and send them down here.  We'll fill them with warm air for the backhaul.

_____________ 

  "A stranger's just a friend you ain't met yet." --- Dave Gardner

  • Member since
    December 2001
  • From: Denver / La Junta
  • 10,820 posts
Posted by mudchicken on Thursday, February 22, 2018 11:31 PM

You inhaling or exhaling with that pipe? Does the DEA know about you folks?

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
  • Member since
    September 2013
  • 6,199 posts
Posted by Miningman on Thursday, February 22, 2018 11:07 PM

Paul of Covington-- It was -43 here yesterday morning. Sounds like we need to send down some air conditioning and you send up some heat and we will all be happy and temperate! 

A temperature pipeline! ...Northern Saskatchewan to New Orleans, one in each direction.

  • Member since
    July 2010
  • From: Louisiana
  • 2,310 posts
Posted by Paul of Covington on Thursday, February 22, 2018 10:59 PM

   In New Orleans seven of the last eight days were record highs, and tomorrow might be another one.

_____________ 

  "A stranger's just a friend you ain't met yet." --- Dave Gardner

  • Member since
    December 2001
  • From: Northern New York
  • 25,021 posts
Posted by tree68 on Thursday, February 22, 2018 10:04 PM

blue streak 1
Has anyone ever heard that any city has had 5 consecutive days ?

We just had five consecutive days here, and are about to start on another five...

Oh, wait, you were talking about record temperatures....   Smile, Wink & Grin

LarryWhistling
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...

  • Member since
    December 2007
  • From: Georgia USA SW of Atlanta
  • 11,919 posts
Posted by blue streak 1 on Thursday, February 22, 2018 9:27 PM

City of Columbus, Ga has had 5 consecutive days of record high temps. Has anyone ever heard that any city has had 5 consecutive record high days ?

  • Member since
    December 2001
  • From: Sunny (mostly) San Diego
  • 1,920 posts
Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Thursday, February 22, 2018 5:28 PM

switch7frg

SurpriseCan anyone tell me how to get to Sesame St.??

You have to be an HBO subscriber to answer that now.Sad

EDIT: Great! I spend two minutes looking for an appropriate emoticon and Zugs gets on ahead of me!

  • Member since
    January 2002
  • From: Canterlot
  • 9,575 posts
Posted by zugmann on Thursday, February 22, 2018 5:25 PM

switch7frg

Surprise Can anyone tell me how to get to Sesame St.??

 

Requires a subscription to HBO, I believe.  Contact your cable provider for details.

It's been fun.  But it isn't much fun anymore.   Signing off for now. 


  

The opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer, any other railroad, company, or person.t fun any

  • Member since
    February 2005
  • From: Cordes Jct Ariz.
  • 1,305 posts
Posted by switch7frg on Thursday, February 22, 2018 4:47 PM

Surprise Can anyone tell me how to get to Sesame St.??

Y6bs evergreen in my mind

  • Member since
    April 2003
  • From: Defiance Ohio
  • 13,319 posts
Posted by JoeKoh on Thursday, February 22, 2018 3:44 PM

afternoon

Ns local was uptown when I left work.Got a call on the way home.Csx local couldn't get into Standley Elevator because of an engine with a bad traction motor.They couldn't get into GM because the yard track they use has a railgrinder parked on it.Maybe tomorrow.Have chores to do.

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").

 

  • Member since
    January 2002
  • From: Canterlot
  • 9,575 posts
Posted by zugmann on Thursday, February 22, 2018 1:12 PM

tree68
And as they say, growing old is mandatory. Growing up is not...

I used to have this in my signaturte page:

 

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”


C.S. Lewis

It's been fun.  But it isn't much fun anymore.   Signing off for now. 


  

The opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer, any other railroad, company, or person.t fun any

  • Member since
    September 2010
  • 2,515 posts
Posted by Electroliner 1935 on Thursday, February 22, 2018 11:37 AM

Mookie

 Paul of Covington

Funny, but all my life I've had the feeling in the back of my mind that I don't know what I want to be when I grow up.  I'm now 77 and I still feel that way.
 

And I'm five years older than Paul and am happy with what I have done and experienced but still feel like a kid sometimes (when I'm not feeling old). 

  • Member since
    May 2005
  • From: S.E. South Dakota
  • 13,569 posts
Posted by Murphy Siding on Thursday, February 22, 2018 11:02 AM

ChuckCobleigh
 
Paul of Covington
   Funny, but all my life I've had the feeling in the back of my mind that I don't know what I want to be when I grow up.  I'm now 77 and I still feel that way.

 

As my wife tells me: "Give it up!  Your not grown up!  You're never going to grow up!"

And, frankly, she's right!

And Murph, I had 6/7 of that million before I was 30; I had all of the zeros.

 

The only part of the goal I hit was the 30.

Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.

  • Member since
    December 2001
  • From: Northern New York
  • 25,021 posts
Posted by tree68 on Thursday, February 22, 2018 10:05 AM

ChuckCobleigh
As my wife tells me: "Give it up!  Your not grown up!  You're never going to grow up!"

And as they say, growing old is mandatory.  Growing up is not...

LarryWhistling
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...

  • Member since
    December 2001
  • From: Sunny (mostly) San Diego
  • 1,920 posts
Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Thursday, February 22, 2018 10:02 AM

Paul of Covington
   Funny, but all my life I've had the feeling in the back of my mind that I don't know what I want to be when I grow up.  I'm now 77 and I still feel that way.

As my wife tells me: "Give it up!  Your not grown up!  You're never going to grow up!"

And, frankly, she's right!

And Murph, I had 6/7 of that million before I was 30; I had all of the zeros.

  • Member since
    May 2005
  • From: S.E. South Dakota
  • 13,569 posts
Posted by Murphy Siding on Thursday, February 22, 2018 9:26 AM

Mookie

And also when Mr. Rogers was no more - 

Before Murphy gets his My 2 Cents in here - I watched with my small daughter!  My story and sticking to it!  

 

when I was a kid we didn't watch Mr. Rodgers. We were more into high culture, like Giligan's Island.Whistling

     I did spend a lot of time watching Thomas the Tank Engine with our three boys. I had a book of the Railway Series that it was based on. We went through that so many times that it eventually fell apart, and it was a big, thick, hardcover book.

Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.

  • Member since
    May 2005
  • From: S.E. South Dakota
  • 13,569 posts
Posted by Murphy Siding on Thursday, February 22, 2018 9:18 AM

Mookie
 
Murphy Siding
I’m 30.

 

Check the harbor - I think that ship sailed already...

 

 

That's why I hang out by the railroad tracks instead.

Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.

  • Member since
    June 2001
  • From: US
  • 13,488 posts
Posted by Mookie on Thursday, February 22, 2018 8:50 AM

And also when Mr. Rogers was no more - 

Before Murphy gets his My 2 Cents in here - I watched with my small daughter!  My story and sticking to it!  

She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw

  • Member since
    June 2001
  • From: US
  • 13,488 posts
Posted by Mookie on Thursday, February 22, 2018 8:46 AM

Murphy Siding
I’m 30.

Check the harbor - I think that ship sailed already...

She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw

  • Member since
    December 2001
  • From: Northern New York
  • 25,021 posts
Posted by tree68 on Thursday, February 22, 2018 8:04 AM

Mookie
Probably remember more details from that simple show than all the reruns of Star Wars....

I remember being heartbroken when they announced they were going off the air.

LarryWhistling
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...

Join our Community!

Our community is FREE to join. To participate you must either login or register for an account.

Search the Community

Newsletter Sign-Up

By signing up you may also receive occasional reader surveys and special offers from Trains magazine.Please view our privacy policy