NOTE: 01/28/2019 on TRAINS Newswire: Kalmbach Offices will closed on Monday due to Weather in Milwaukee area!!!
"'Trains' offices to be closed Jan. 28 because of severe weather"
JoeKohLarry we are sending more your way.
Yeah - lots of talk about that on our morning ham radio net. The PD in my old hometown in SE MI put out a note about it, too. As long as the weather is decent this coming weekend for an event at the local community college - it seems like every year in the past it's been pretty lousy, but this year (so far) we're a little more optomistic.
"Super Science Saturday" includes a lot of science related displays. I plan to be there with our amateur radio group.
It appeared to be a good crowd at the big train show in MA. I haven't seen attendance figures yet, but they usually figure on upwards of 20,000 visitors.
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...
morning
Larry we are sending more your way.Cleaned up here then went into town.Saw an eastbound on Csx.Haven't heard if Matt is still doing lunch today or not.We'll be sure to get our buns into town anyway.
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").
First day of the Amherst show is done - pretty good crowd. We'll see what tomorrow brings.
Lake effect at home - I hope I don't have to deal with a lot of snow in the driveway when I get home late Sunday evening. It's a long drive home from MA and I won't need that to cap off my trip.
evening
Ns was clear when I left work.Ran errands in town.Going to check on brother tomorrow.Will see what Ns runs by.Matt and his group are serving lunch at a shelter on Sunday.Snow next week? how much?? but the Brrrrrr will come afterwards.Winter in Nw Ohio.
CShaveRRAnd after the snowy-blowy days, we'll go down into the real deep freeze--this morning's lows will be the highs on Wednesday!
Guess we're further out in the 'burbs than you are, Paul--it was six below here when I looked, and decided to slide under the covers for a couple more hours. We have no plans to go out anywhere today. I have the book-editing (red pen's at the ready!) and three prior-identity tables for my files that I can work on.Years ago when we were putting little quizzes on this forum, I built up a train, listed the reporting marks and numbers, and asked what was unusual about it. The answer was that everything, including the power, had formerly been lettered CNW. One of my tables has some cars that were built as CNW in the early 1980s, but UP unloaded them (expensive leases, perhaps?), and since then they're now on their third, fourth, or sometimes fifth, operator (CNW > NOKL (renumbered) > KO > KCS (renumbered) > CRDX). Not all of the cars were lettered NOKL, and not all of the cars were lettered KO, but all combinations exist. And my table will be designed to show each of these possibilities. There are just over 300 cars in the series, to tackle one by one.Our weather all along the coast may prevent a trip to Michigan after the weekend (up Monday and back Tuesday) that we'd been plannng on. And after the snowy-blowy days, we'll go down into the real deep freeze--this morning's lows will be the highs on Wednesday!
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)
What appears to be an extended cold snap opened this morning with a chill (-3F). The ride to work was delayed at Belt Junction by sticking switches. Got to work about 10-12 minutes later than usual.
rvos1979 It's been one of those weeks where I feel like Wile E. Coyote after a plan goes awry........ Truck went down for service Thursday night, finally got it back Monday afternoon. Go to Green Bay, load to Oklahoma not ready, so got my 1st quarter and tablet training done Monday night. First order of business Tuesday was a drug test, that makes four quarters in a row now. Then the freezing rain and snow from Green Bay to about Rochelle before the roads got better. Made it to St Louis area last night, only to hear of a hazmat wreck involving dangerous when wet product in Rolla, MO, that shut down I44. Last time I checked, the road has reopened, hoping today will be uneventful.........
It's been one of those weeks where I feel like Wile E. Coyote after a plan goes awry........
Truck went down for service Thursday night, finally got it back Monday afternoon. Go to Green Bay, load to Oklahoma not ready, so got my 1st quarter and tablet training done Monday night. First order of business Tuesday was a drug test, that makes four quarters in a row now. Then the freezing rain and snow from Green Bay to about Rochelle before the roads got better. Made it to St Louis area last night, only to hear of a hazmat wreck involving dangerous when wet product in Rolla, MO, that shut down I44. Last time I checked, the road has reopened, hoping today will be uneventful.........
afternoon
Ns was clear when I left work.Matt was back to school today.Guessers say next big storm to come Monday then the freezer opens up again.Chores to do here at home.
joe
Tempratures didn't warm up quite fast enough this morning.We had standing water on top of the ice on the backroads.Matt was closed today.Ns sent an eastbound coal hopper train when I got off work.Went and did errands in town.Chores to do here.
Randy Vos
"Ever have one of those days where you couldn't hit the ground with your hat??" - Waylon Jennings
"May the Lord take a liking to you and blow you up, real good" - SCTV
tree68It's forty degrees warmer now than it was at dawn - and it's still only +12.4F.
CSX is supposed to put heat warnings out when a temperature difference of more than 30 degrees F is forecast.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
It's forty degrees warmer now than it was at dawn - and it's still only +12.4F.
Stuff is on it's way.Ns had a coal train in the siding,Westbound stack train and local uptown.Matt needs canned goods for an english project.All the goods will be donated to the local pantry.Chores to do here.
The snow has ended, but the bitter cold remains. Currently -9F this morning, with a wind chill nearing -20F. OTOH, temps in the thirties later in the week...
The weather guys were accurate around here...we got no more to speak of today (footprints were obscured, but that could well have been drifting). We even have enough of a clear sky to see the moon with a bite out of it. I don't think I'll stay up for totality.We took a little ride after dinner today, and I saw a covered hopper with a strange logo on it. As it turns out, this "Biafra" logo is very elaborate graffiti, and this isn't the only car to have it. It looks a little like the modern Alton & Southern logo (C&NW ball-and-bar, with MP buzz-saw effect). I also saw a green SIRX covered hopper car with white "Garvey Grain" lettering obliterated. The GGIX fleet is something that I'm going to have to look into. The SIRX cars (27 of them) came via the ITLX 24000 series (133 of them); the GGIX fleet was 150 cars total.Interesting how one old car can make my day (or ruin it, depending on how I choose to look at it).Oh...some of the GGIX cars were green and some were orange. I have to work on that aspect of things, too.
Next wave ... Chicken Little move over. The local media are now warning of up to a foot of wet white stuff...up from 0"-2" yesterday. Weatherliar U may be putting up a recall notice on the current graduating class.
Snowboard is only showing an inch of snow since afternoon, but there's drifting going on, too. Northeast wind means I get a nice diamond shaped drift right in front of the garage door.
The big story is still the wind chill, currently coming in at -23F.
Matt's didn't have to do dishes tonight but he helped me shovel snow.He also got the main line running on the layout.He can run Dcc and regular Dc locomotives on the main.The yard is DC.Csx and other railroads were having usual weather problems.Going to get brrr cold for tomorrow and Monday.Church has already cancelled so we can stay home and keep warm.
We got about five or six inches of the stuff that we'd received the warning for. There are currently no advisories for us, though we may see a bit of lake-effect snow overnight and into tomorrow. Cook County (Chicago) is under a winter weather advisory, and I trust I won't need to go into Indiana tomorrow. No trains seen today; my phone gave me a mile of walking credit for my work at shoveling snow today (and walking the aisles of the store after we got out).I also received in the mail a new book to edit--same author as usual; the topic's slightly different, though...DT&I MofW equipment.
We didn't get upgraded to a "warning" like much of the rest of the state. Still might see a foot of snow before it's over and done.
Ns local was uptown when I left work.Ran some errands.We are about as ready as we can for whatever Mother Nature wants to send.Chores to do.
Ns had some cars uptown after work.Went into town to run errands and go to the store.The shovel sales were brisk.Tonights snow is mostly melting as it comes down.Guessers say 6-9 inches for Saturday plus gusty winds.stay tuned.
Mild yesterday with intermittent sun, cold (-5F) this morning, and that's only going get colder. Sounds like the big event will be later this weeked with upwards of two feet of snow possible in some area.
Getting colder around here, but no new snowfall as of yet. Wouldn't mind getting a little snow as I've always enjoyed catching trains in a snowy environment.
Your friendly neighborhood CNW fan.
Forgot to post this. This past weekend a north bound CSX IM train on the A&WP sub south of Atlanta. Thought nothing unusual about the 2 CSX locos on the front running about run 6. Was I ever wrong as 3/4 way back was a CSX DPU pushing hard at probably what was run 8. First DPU operation observed on this sub! Most CSX IM trains with any load usually observed with 3 locos in front all working fairly hard at the start of a 14 mile climb. So will be watching for more 2x1x0 or even the ultimate 1x1x1 DPU set up!
Will be checking leader's number now!
According to our usual meteorologist, there are two storms headed our way. The first will skirt us close to the south...Paul, you might get something, but we don't expect to. But there's another one coming Friday that's going to be dumping on us all day Saturday, probably to the tune of six inches or so. And more will be coming the following week. I'll get my shoveling time in, after all.So tomorrow, in honor of the storm we aren't getting, I plan on sauntering to Elmhurst for some data-gathering. I want to get that first 2019-built car sooner rather than later.
Ns sent a westbound stack train after work.Guessers are still guessing on how much snow we are going to get.Did have some rain/snizzle stuff this morning.People have had a tough time with Celina.(My old hometown) It's not like Kansas.It's Ce-line-a.Off to do chores.
mudchickenThen there is Versailles, KY and Cayuga, IL (How da heck do you get Koo-Gee outta dat?)
Learned how to pronounce Versailles, KY on a business trip to Lexington. Up here, the county is pronounced "Kay-YOU-ga." Sometimes the first sylable is more like "eye" than a long "a," though.
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