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.
Johnny
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...
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...
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.
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.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
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.
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").
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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"A stranger's just a friend you ain't met yet." --- Dave Gardner
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thunder snow rocks!
tree68 mudchicken Thundersleet?...Ah springtime in the Rockies!!! And why not? We get thundersnow... And we aren't out of the woods yet for snow, either.
mudchicken Thundersleet?...Ah springtime in the Rockies!!!
Thundersleet?...Ah springtime in the Rockies!!!
And why not? We get thundersnow... And we aren't out of the woods yet for snow, either.
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
JoeKohWent 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.
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.
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.
joe
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.
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.
Murphy Siding Mookie You should have stuck with the license plate.... Well, I worked today, so you know I didn't give up my day job.
Mookie You should have stuck with the license plate....
You should have stuck with the license plate....
Well, I worked today, so you know I didn't give up my day job.
C'mon snow! moisture-Moisture-MOISTURE!
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.
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.
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.
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
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.
Mookie Murphy Siding How do you tell the locals from the out-of towners? Look at their license plates? attitude!
Murphy Siding How do you tell the locals from the out-of towners? Look at their license plates?
How do you tell the locals from the out-of towners? Look at their license plates?
attitude!
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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