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Posted by Deggesty on Saturday, March 31, 2018 9:15 PM

The temperature was in the mid-forties this morning--and reached at least 70, and is predicted to be about 40 in the morning.Rain is expected Monday

Mookie, I plan to come thorugh your hometown Tuesday morning, on my way see people I knew 60+ years ago.

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Posted by tree68 on Saturday, March 31, 2018 8:59 PM

Gonna be windy overnight - gale warnings up on Lake Ontario, and high winds along the shore and well inland.  The lake is still high, so that doesn't bode well for lakeshore property...

But it should settle down for Easter Sunday.  Everyone remember to take it easy on the jelly beans, and you can have my coconut eggs...

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Posted by Miningman on Friday, March 30, 2018 5:30 PM

Paul of Covington---- No, that will not happen. People function is extreme cold temperatures with their jobs just fine, although you need to be dressed adequately. It is -40 up here Nov, Dec, Jan and Feb and the truckers truck, the railroads railroad and the power crews are out there as was my cable guy stringing a new line from a pole to the house. Not easy and there are restrictions. 

The students still go out for a smoke in that stuff, and people go out on the lake ice fishing all winter long, practically every weekend. 

Worst I ever experienced was in Schefferville on the Labrador Quebec border, in the open pit. Wind chill in the pit was -70, antifreeze turns into rubber balls, did what I was there for, sampling, for about 7-8 minutes and got the hell out. 

I could not function in extreme heat, say 115F, either. 

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Posted by BaltACD on Friday, March 30, 2018 5:16 PM

Went down to Palatka, FL this morning - got blocked by SB Amtrak working at the Depot for about 4 minutes.  Lead (of 2) engine blocks street to get the coaches to stop on the platform.

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Posted by JoeKoh on Friday, March 30, 2018 4:59 PM

evening

Went west today.Just missed both Amtraks this morning in Bryan.The old NYC signals sit battered and thrown in the scrap hopper.The ones in Butler are still up.The searchlight signals on the wabash line are still in operation as well.Csx was in sit and wait mode.We went to New Haven an Ns was moving.Saw a scale test car on one train.Also they had high hoods working around the yard too.Also had the FRA geometry and inspection car in the yard as well.Stacey and Matt went to get supper.

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Posted by Paul of Covington on Friday, March 30, 2018 4:57 PM

   Somebody from Montana told me once that if you took a sudden deep breath in that super-minus cold weather your lungs would freeze and you'd die.   Is there any truth to that?   In my experience in cold weather in Alaska and upstate New York (the latter was colder), I think I instinctively took shallow breaths.

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Posted by Miningman on Friday, March 30, 2018 4:22 PM

Well I don't have to worry about the Chinese magic bus space station crashng through my roof as we up here in Canada have been declared exempt by the 'get to the point' aptly named Centre for Orbital and Re-Entry Debris Studies ( glad I don't have to answer that phone).

Those of you, say in Memphis or San Diego, well, good luck. Look up once in while.

Just to point out that there is no free lunch and karma is alive and well, it is brutally cold with a horrendous wind chill touching -40 up here today. Went out for some hot cross buns and lotto tickets and was wondering if I would make it back, instead found frozen solid clutching hot cross buns in one hand and the lotto in the other. 

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Posted by JoeKoh on Thursday, March 29, 2018 5:49 AM

Larry

Probably came by after we left.There was a guy with a super size 4x4 visiting the trainpark.We visited a friend who had been in the hospital and went home.

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Posted by BaltACD on Wednesday, March 28, 2018 10:21 PM

Paul of Covington
 
tree68
We get thundersnow... 

    Ah, yes.   The first and only time I experienced thundersnow was in your neck of the woods, in Ilion, NY, in 1968.   Lots of noise, and the snow came down in great big wet chunks.   I'd never even heard of it before.

Had Thundersnow in the Central Maryland area in early November 1988.  Lightning, Thunder and about 15 inches of snow.

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Posted by Paul of Covington on Wednesday, March 28, 2018 10:16 PM

tree68
We get thundersnow...

    Ah, yes.   The first and only time I experienced thundersnow was in your neck of the woods, in Ilion, NY, in 1968.   Lots of noise, and the snow came down in great big wet chunks.   I'd never even heard of it before.

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Wednesday, March 28, 2018 9:02 PM

Thunder snow rocks!

tree68

 

 
mudchicken

Thundersleet?Lightning...Ah springtime in the Rockies!!!

 

And why not?  We get thundersnow...  And we aren't out of the woods yet for snow, either.

 

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Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, March 28, 2018 8:15 PM

mudchicken

Thundersleet?Lightning...Ah springtime in the Rockies!!!

And why not?  We get thundersnow...  And we aren't out of the woods yet for snow, either.

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Posted by mudchicken on Wednesday, March 28, 2018 7:26 PM

Thundersleet?Lightning...Ah springtime in the Rockies!!!

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
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Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, March 28, 2018 5:45 PM

JoeKoh
Went up to Deshler and checked the action there.

Track geometry train came through southbound on the Toledo sub a while ago.

Were you wearing an orange sweatshirt?  If you were, I probably saw you.

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Posted by JoeKoh on Wednesday, March 28, 2018 5:38 PM

evening

Projects got done so we went train watching.Csx was squeezing every train where it could.Q 143,509 and 506 held up an Ns 15 E in Leipsic.L 75 for NS was using a Dash-9 to switch.Crew said they were having problems keeping her going at low speeds.Went up to Deshler and checked the action there.Q 351 had to wait for an inspector to check the Sw wye & siding.Then they had to wait for traffic on the Toledo sub.Rainy day tomorrow.

stay safe

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Posted by JoeKoh on Tuesday, March 27, 2018 6:15 PM

evening

Went down to nephews shop.Got our order.Looked for RJ Corman.They were busy picking up ties in Greenville.Saw some Csx at Ansonia.Ns had a one unit wonder with problems going through Eaton.Had to call a second unit to help.Tomorrow it's projects here at home.

stay safe

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Posted by tree68 on Monday, March 26, 2018 7:46 PM

We had frost under clear skies this morning.  

There's rain in the forecast, but I'm hoping it holds off tomorrow until after the march from the funeral home to the church for a firefighter's funeral.

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Posted by Deggesty on Monday, March 26, 2018 7:41 PM

There was a good snowfall while I was eating breakfast (it may have snowed in the night also)--and when I looked out during our "light meal" (the last meal of the day), it was all gone.

Sorry, MC, I couldn't catch any to send to you.

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Posted by mudchicken on Monday, March 26, 2018 6:49 PM

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Mookie

You should have stuck with the license plate....

 

 

 

Well, I worked today, so you know I didn't give up my day job.Wink

 

 

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Posted by mudchicken on Monday, March 26, 2018 6:47 PM

C'mon snow! moisture-Moisture-MOISTURE!

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Posted by JoeKoh on Monday, March 26, 2018 11:27 AM

afternoon

Csx has started to wire up the power derails at Fc for the ND&W.The ND&W came into Defiance with 12 cars from NS and took 12 cars back.Csx ran some trains by.The J 715 local had a gp 38 and a mother slug set as it came by FC.Going to take Matt for his interview.Rain coming for tomorrow.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by JoeKoh on Sunday, March 25, 2018 12:08 PM

afternoon

Spring here in Nw Ohio.Temps in the 30's and winds from the NE as well.Csx had some intersting trains.Train 192 is an intermodal from UP to CSX's North Baltimore yard.They kept the DPU on it.Also the j 715 came and switched in town today too.Glad Stacey made chilli for lunch.Tomorrow it's the corn city.

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Joe

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Posted by tree68 on Saturday, March 24, 2018 9:07 PM

Tough week for the fire service - two Line of Duty Deaths in York, PA, one in NYC, and now two in West Virginia.

A local firefighter who was in NYC on 9/11 and worked side-by-side with FDNY just passed away.  Likely due to his exposure at the towers.

Add to that the cancer presentation I went to this week, and it's clear that being a firefighter has changed.

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Saturday, March 24, 2018 8:45 PM

Mookie

You should have stuck with the license plate....

 

Well, I worked today, so you know I didn't give up my day job.Wink

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Posted by Mookie on Saturday, March 24, 2018 7:50 PM

You should have stuck with the license plate....

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Posted by tree68 on Saturday, March 24, 2018 7:50 PM

Can't say as I've ever seen a robin here in winter.  I think they join the rest of our "snowbirds" in the southern reaches.

This "spring" was probably tough on them.  They arrived to bare ground only to have upwards of a foot or more snow fall...

The red winged blackbirds are back, though.  I've had plenty at the feeders, mostly picking up what the dickie birds knock off the feeders.

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Saturday, March 24, 2018 7:28 PM

Mookie

 

 
Murphy Siding

How do you tell the locals from the out-of towners? Look at their license plates?

 

 

 

attitude!

 

 

So look for the ones with the Brooklyn accent? Where the boidies  choip.

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Posted by Mookie on Saturday, March 24, 2018 4:13 PM

Murphy Siding

How do you tell the locals from the out-of towners? Look at their license plates?

 

attitude!

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Saturday, March 24, 2018 2:41 PM

How do you tell the locals from the out-of towners? Look at their license plates?

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Posted by Mookie on Saturday, March 24, 2018 1:14 PM

Murphy - you may be seeing the local robins.  You don't see them during winter, but they say that a lot of robins never leave your area.  That's why they look like a flock just arrived, but they are just gathering in the neighborhood and looking for food.  Never left town in the first place.

And any cat worth its salt, knows robins....

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