afternoon
Ns sent an eastbound after work.Ran errands in town.Tomorrow is the first meeting of the year for historical society in Deshler.Need to get things around for that too.
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").
For the first time in several years, we actually sold out of chicken before we ran out of customers! We just never know how things will go.
It's too bad for those who didn't get any dinners, but makes closing things out that much easier!
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...
Matt served lunch with his youth group today.Csx sent a few trains by The q 090 today was the stack express.It had no reefer or other cars with it.Matt gets to go do dishes later.
Ns local was in the siding.Eastbound came into town as well when I left work.Rainy drizzly windy yucky out.Matt's youth group leader reported that everyone was registered for their mission trip.Also reported everything was paid.Going to do chores.Matt gets to do dishes again tonight.
Maybe related to Jeff's problems a few posts back?
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
Good Morning:
Here in the Wichita area, the wind has finally died own, and it has become a beautiful Fall Day, temp at about 32 deg, and it is supposed to have a high of 50. May my morning trip out this AM.
i know Joe Koh reports on the railroad activity arounbd his home town, and I notices something 'strange' around Mulvane this AM. There has been a mixed freight parked on the North line since early Thursday afternoon, and there is a UPRR (trackage rights?) tank train parked on the line to Wichita, and also one parked out East of town.... Pretty unusual for around here... Wonder if there has been some 'unreported problem' in the area (Wellington yard and Sou T-con )? Just askin'.
We were a bit luckier out our way. The wind was still nasty but not too many problems with downed trees or power lines like some areas. The snow is expected to be a half inch at most so it barely counts.
We are somewhere in the center of the storm now, with the temperature dropping...it was over 60 earlier today, and is now 40. After "sunrise" tomorrow morning, the rain will change to snow. Temps will continue to drop until about noon, when the precipitation will end. (It will actually go below freezing tomorrow night).We'll have a lot of small branches to clean up once the wind dies down.
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)
Afternoon
Ns was clear when I left work.Had some rain.Have a little sunshine.Round 2 is suppossed the bad part tonight.Glad tomorrow is Friday.Errands to run.
Eastern Nebraska and western Iowa under water in places. UP is shut down. I tied up yesterday about this time away from home, 9 times out and I'm still 9 times out 24 hours later. UP has spots under water, CN does too. I've seen pictures of the Boyer River around Logan IA over the UP and CN tracks.
My supplies were running low, so I ventured over to the Wal-mart near the motel. The sustained 30mph winds weren't too bad. The 50mph gusts made me feel like those Weather Channel idiots trying to stand out in the winds during a hurricane.
Jeff
The wind quit and the large glowing orb is about to make an appearance.....Appears Sioux Falls is next on the DQ Blizzard tour.
(The whole side of the house was caked in two inches of ice and snow. Now falling off in sheets)
You're right about that. Lynn has observed that I'm not ready for retirement and she hit the nail on the head. The hardest part will be what to do with the free time when I stop working. My job has its good days and bad days, but overall I like my work and it pays well so I'm expecting to keep working for a few more years.
BOB WITHORNThree months and 12 1/2 days and I'm done. Officially retired!!
Now the fun begins! Hope you've got a day planner all polished up and ready to go! Retirement is not for the faint of heart.
Ns sent a westbound stack train after work.Cars are ready to be switched some more uptown.Our snow at the end of the street is gone.Need to go do errands.
On the other hand, we might be celebrating our weather Thursday with a DQ blizzard, too...it's supposed to be tickling 70 degrees out there! Trouble is, we may need umbrellas to do it. Most of what was left of the snow in our yard (very tall piles at one point, from our driveway) is pretty well gone.Mine's a Hawaiian Blizzard, with strawberries instead of bananas (allergic to fresh banana, doncha know).
Currently outside the 11th floor here it is sixty degrees and windy.
They have already issued BLIZZARD WARNINGS for most of the east half of the state and east of the Continental Divide up high. The media is all obsessed with Snowmageddon. Guess tomorrow is gonna be a DQ kind of day.
(Make mine a Peanut Butter Cup Blizzard please)....Wonder what Johnny is gonna get?
tree68That's not too bad for the little guys like rabbits and squirrels
Ns local was going to move around his train.Ns also had an eastbound coming into town.It's been some years now but had to pray for the battery to hold.The belt broke in the middle of the night on "alligator alley"while we were in Florida.Made it safely to Aunt's house and Dad got a new belt the next day.Chores to do.
tree68 mudchicken Darn. Guess I don't have to round up a couple of semis full of Frosted Flakes and Rice Crispies to throw in the ditch with the milk. They can stay in the median of I-80 in Iowa. And it's a little early for some maple syrup to sweeten your breakfast... Some years ago, a local produce company lost a truck in the median of the Interstate near here. Figuring that it would simply rot away, or something, DOT didn't make them clean up the various fruits and veggies. Big mistake, soon rectified. Seems the local wildlife took a fancy to all that good eating. Unfortunately, that meant they had to cross the Interstate to get to it. That's not too bad for the little guys like rabbits and squirrels, but the bigger animals (up to and including deer) tend to cause problems when hit by a vehicle...
mudchicken Darn. Guess I don't have to round up a couple of semis full of Frosted Flakes and Rice Crispies to throw in the ditch with the milk. They can stay in the median of I-80 in Iowa.
Darn. Guess I don't have to round up a couple of semis full of Frosted Flakes and Rice Crispies to throw in the ditch with the milk. They can stay in the median of I-80 in Iowa.
And it's a little early for some maple syrup to sweeten your breakfast...
Some years ago, a local produce company lost a truck in the median of the Interstate near here. Figuring that it would simply rot away, or something, DOT didn't make them clean up the various fruits and veggies.
Big mistake, soon rectified. Seems the local wildlife took a fancy to all that good eating. Unfortunately, that meant they had to cross the Interstate to get to it.
That's not too bad for the little guys like rabbits and squirrels, but the bigger animals (up to and including deer) tend to cause problems when hit by a vehicle...
On a trip to Florida several years ago I was making great time until I got to the Florida/Georgia line - a truck load of assorted produce had been involved in a accident and spilled its load across the Southbound lanes of I-95 - ended up being stuck in a non-moving jam for about 3 hours. Once traffic started to move and I got to the scene of the accident - the trailer had been moved to the shoulder of the road so it could be loaded on another truck and several Bobcat loaders were shoving the spilled produce into the waterway.
Several days later there was a blurb on the 6 PM News about the residents of Fernandina Beach complaining about 'rotton garbage' that was floating down the St. Mary's River through town.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Ns must have the mess cleaned up because they sent a big westbound train after work.Nice and sunny today.Still have a little snow residue and the end of our street.Chores to do.
tree68......... It was pumped off (as was the milk - some 48,000 pounds of it...) If the milk tank had ruptured, we'd have had the environmental conservation spill people - that much milk is considerd a hazmat problem.
If the milk tank had ruptured, we'd have had the environmental conservation spill people - that much milk is considerd a hazmat problem.
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
Electroliner 1935 Was anyone crying about spilled milk?
Was anyone crying about spilled milk?
No milk was spilt. A little Diesel from a hole punched in one tank, but most of that was caught, so no environmental disaster.
Worst part about the Diesel was that he'd just filled up that morning. It was pumped off (as was the milk - some 48,000 pounds of it...)
Absolute mess around here this morning. I think we got the entire gamut of freezing precipitation. Still, it's above freezing...
My morning was a loaded milk semi that ended up in the trees at the side of the road. I wasn't driving - I responded with the fire department.
Good to be home. At least the real estate isn't sliding down the hill like to the west of here and not raining on top of snow like east of here in NE and IA ... Population in the ditches of I-80 in NE and IA seems to be growing. (BrianH: Ft Dodge was a lesson in futility)
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