afternoon
Rain has stopped for now.Ground has really soaked it in.Mailman dropped off a package for Matt.Going to see what Stacey wants to do for 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").
We may see some of that rain Sunday.
A casualty of my trip was my desktop computer. First finding was the power supply was dead. Replaced that, and heard a loud snap when I powered up. I'm pretty sure that was the video card. The replacement is sitting in front of me, but only has HDMI ports. Neither of my monitors have HDMI ports.
Fortunately, they do have conventional ports, the video on the motherboard is still working, and I located a cable in my collection. So I'm up on one screen, vs my usual two (this video card will handle three monitors - I have no idea what I'd do with three monitors...)
So, I ordered up to new monitors (and HDMI cables) to pick up tomorrow at the office supply store. If all goes well (additional crossed fingers accepted), I'll have it all back on line tomorrow.
And, since the UPS won't recognize the replacement batteries I installed in it, I got a new UPS, too. I'll either try to use the old one in the ham shack, or pull the batteries to build another battery box for ham radio.
Wheeeeee!
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...
I happened across this Trains' newswire item.
https://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2020/07/31-iowa-steam-engine-move-caught-in-political-storm
News to me. Other than the newswire, I haven't heard anything about it. More like a few sprinkles instead of a storm.
IMO, they placed the engine and car wrong. I think it should've been placed with the engine facing US 30.
Jeff
I'm told Wrinn is out here wandering around in the dark with a certain RGS shiny toy making news. Apparently missed him by that [] much. See if he pops up next week with a blog post.
morning
Went and dodged the rain drops today.Ns has plenty of cars with track panels and even a small diamond over in New Haven.They also have one of their "brick" train sets resting for the weekend there too.Went north and didn't see anything too exciting on Csx in St.Joe. So went on to Butler and saw a few trains there.Ns ran a "Carl" special westbound.Stopped in Edgerton to see my brother too.He was going to have lunch.Tomorrow its back to work.
mudchicken I'm told Wrinn is out here wandering around in the dark with a certain RGS shiny toy making news. Apparently missed him by that [] much. See if he pops up next week with a blog post.
There have been some "Trains Live" videos on YouTube in the last couple of days from that locale...
We may be dodging something bigger than raindrops - NWS SPC just issued a tornado watch for us. Don't much care for hail or big twisty things, but we'll take the rain.
Just don't blow that new computer setup, Larry!We've been without television due to a small power surge caused by an outage from a storm that was nowhere close to us...we'll be buying a replacement set soon.We got home from my mother's memorial service in Michigan yesterday evening. We didn't have any train luck in any of the usual places until I turned into Pine Junction for a little while. We managed to get ourselves surrounded by four trains at once (three of which were moving)...I didn't know which way to turn!Now I'm paying the price...so many good sightings, research tool off line to me...doing what I can until it comes back. Even worse, my LibreOffice quit, and have had to redo everything I'd done in the sightings file today.
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)
Jeff: I'm a day late to the scene, here!
Apparently, The local Demo Machine pols got their knickers all in knots ! The contractor, in preping the #17 (nee: CO&E RR and former B&SV display engine, for movement across the area) He had the timerity[the Contractor] to place some American Flags, and also some Trump banners on his transporter quipment and(?) on #17... preping for the move.
The locomotive(#17),its tender, and an old passenger car; which had previously been donated to the City of Boone, and the local Rotary Cub. Were being moved to a busy highway corner to note for visitors, the railroad history of Boone.
With the way things are these days; The people are probably thankful, they weren't sent to the scrapper....
CShaveRR We didn't have any train luck in any of the usual places until I turned into Pine Junction for a little while. We managed to get ourselves surrounded by four trains at once (three of which were moving)...I didn't know which way to turn!
We didn't have any train luck in any of the usual places until I turned into Pine Junction for a little while. We managed to get ourselves surrounded by four trains at once (three of which were moving)...I didn't know which way to turn!
Ns sent a westbound coal train after work.A powder river train is waiting to go east in the siding.Guess Ns and Csx were working around the pine jct area today from what I have heard.Chores to do.Mother nature might send some more rain.We'll see.
Ns was clear after work.Someone mentioned it was national chocolate chip cookie day.Made a stop on the way home.Chores to do.
CShaveRRJust don't blow that new computer setup, Larry!
Now that things have cooled off a bit and I won't be sweating into the new components, I'll work on finishing the job.
But, when it rains, it pours. Literally, in one sense, as we have gotten over two inches of rain in the past couple of days. Definitely welcome!
On the other hand, I went to the washing machine to move the last batch of laundry to the drier (it's not going to dry on the line in this weather), only to find that the machine had filled up for the wash, but quit before doing anything else.
Trip to the home improvement store. The machine I wanted (which their website said could be delivered tomorrow is out of stock, and won't be available until September.
I'd go for complaining of a "bait and switch," but the next model up isn't in stock either, although it can be delivered late next week...
Good thing I didn't take all those quarters to the bank yet...
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Seems like this is gonna be the year, Larry! Started the summer off: New microwave was victim of an apparent burst of energy from a very close hit from a bolt of lightening. A month later the Dish Washer quit, then the hot Water tank, sprung a leak, next, the lawn mower! Seems like when it'rains' it pours!
Woke up this morning, The parade had started at about 0630AM. The MOW Critters were in action over the fence! We knew they were working this way. They sure are a noisey lot! OH well, at least they are not working here at night. Don't even mention the primary election last night...
Speaking of "blowing" something, did anyone else watch the video of the Beirut explosion? WOW!!!
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
blhanelSpeaking of "blowing" something, did anyone else watch the video of the Beirut explosion? WOW!!!
Amazing what fertilizer can do. 7 year old fertilizer at that.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
evening
Ns had a westbound stack train after work.They also had tonka toys and cars uptown.Did errands and chores.Tomorrow it's time to mow the swamp.Time for supper.
If any of us think the battle over masks is something new check out the 1918 flu epidemic !
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/us/mask-protests-1918.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20200804&instance_id=20953&nl=the-morning®i_id=96383804&segment_id=35161&te=1&user_id=d6921cc27f430e320b317de05f250e40
blhanel Speaking of "blowing" something, did anyone else watch the video of the Beirut explosion? WOW!!!
CSSHEGEWISCH blhanel Speaking of "blowing" something, did anyone else watch the video of the Beirut explosion? WOW!!!
tree68 CSSHEGEWISCH blhanel Speaking of "blowing" something, did anyone else watch the video of the Beirut explosion? WOW!!!
Baltimore had its own historic explosion in 1913 - the Alum Chine Disaster.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alum_Chine_explosion
The explosive wasn't Amominum Nitrate - it was good old mishandled dynamite.
Ns was clear after work.Came home and took care of yardwork.Glad tomorrow is Friday.
tree68The two most notable such events are Texas City, TX, where the captain thought the thing to do was a technique successfully used for other shipboard fires - seal up the cargo space and flood it with steam. In the case of ammonium nitrate, that is exactly the wrong thing to do. The anchor of the SS Grandcamp was found 1.25 miles away. I've seen it opined that this may have been the reason for otherwise unexplained disappearances of other ships at sea. West, TX involved a smaller amount of the fertilizer and a potentially arson fire at the elevator where it was stored. The owner was cited in the case for storage issues, as I recall.
AND the 1995 Oklahoma blast that hit the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was the fertilizer and diesel fuel
Electroliner 1935AND the 1995 Oklahoma blast that hit the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was the fertilizer and diesel fuel
Absolutely - and only as many barrels as would fit in the rental van.
ANFO is regularly used in blasting - under normal circumstances it's pretty stable, even when mixed with fuel oil. I've seen it used in underwater blasting.
tree68 Electroliner 1935 AND the 1995 Oklahoma blast that hit the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was the fertilizer and diesel fuel Absolutely - and only as many barrels as would fit in the rental van. ANFO is regularly used in blasting - under normal circumstances it's pretty stable, even when mixed with fuel oil. I've seen it used in underwater blasting.
Electroliner 1935 AND the 1995 Oklahoma blast that hit the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was the fertilizer and diesel fuel
But then you get a out of control fire the impinges on a warehouse where thousands of tons of Amomium Nitrate has been stored for the past 7 years because it's Russian owners abandoned it ......
AN is an oxidizer, so you can get a significant increase in energy release by mixing fuel of some sort with it - the red clouds in the videos indicate that the Beruit blast was primarily from AN alone. From what I recall, AN used as a blasting agent typically needs a small gain charge to be set off and it is stable enough to be loaded into shot holes from a tanker truck.
Before Texas City showed that AN can make quite a boom, a common "safe" blasting agent was powdered charcoal soaked in LOX - if the shot was called off, all that was needed to make the charge safe was waiting for the LOX to boil off.
Both Balt and Erik are correct, from my point of view.
The ANFO blasts I saw were in the early 1970's. They were set off with blasting caps.
I, too, noticed the reddish color of the smoke in the Beirut event. It was my impression that said color was likely due to the AN.
Ns was clear after work.Matt is out with Stacey getting things for his dorm.Going to help neighbor tomorrow morning.He showed me the root of the problem.Matt and I should have no problems with it.
I just found something that once again makes our media friends show how sloppy they are. I had wondered about this and here goes. The reports were 2750 tons. Guess what it was 2750 tonnes . That is metric tonnes. Approximately 2200 US pounds per tonne! Comes out about 3025 US tons. Sloppy - sloppy - sloppy.
blue streak 1I just found something that once again makes our media friends show how sloppy they are. I had wondered about this and here goes. The reports were 2750 tons. Guess what it was 2750 tonnes . That is metric tonnes. Approximately 2200 US pounds per tonne! Comes out about 3025 US tons. Sloppy - sloppy - sloppy.
I doubt that the functionaries supplying data to the media even know the difference between US tons and Metric tonnes - nor do they care, unless they get a freight bill for it.
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