morning
well the rain and the sleet waited until we got home.weather people call for showers later.need to go get a quick nap.look here comes mookie in her rain boots!!
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").
Good Monday morning, everyone! Well, we're supposed to have a semi-good day around here, weather-wise. At least until this afternoon, and then we have rain coming in.
The coffee is ready, fresh juice is made, and there's hot chocolate and hot tea available.
On the warmer bar, you will find: turkey bacon, sausage patties & links, scrambled eggs, biscuits, gravy, oatmeal, grits, hash brown potatoes, cantaloupe chunks and strawberries.
I hope everyone has a good day, and everyone be careful out there today!
Message From:The Cook
tree68 wrote:Hey - that laser beam toy could keep the Dalmation occupied for hours. It may only run 15 minutes before it shuts off, but he'll keep chasing it forever afterwards....
Hey - that laser beam toy could keep the Dalmation occupied for hours. It may only run 15 minutes before it shuts off, but he'll keep chasing it forever afterwards....
SSHHHH!!!!!!! That one is hidden, especially for that reason!!
I'm kinda partial to the "Mini Racers"!!
[Duff, check your emails for one from CW]
Being Crazy,keeps you from going "INSANE" !! "The light at the end of the tunnel,has been turned off due to budget cuts" NOT AFRAID A Vet., and PROUD OF IT!!
Good Evening!
I managed to see the CNW heritage unit today, but it departed 1.5 hours late which kind of caused some stress in the family. My mom had some important errands to run, but my dad and I took the car to see the Heritage unit and didn't get back until about 2 hours later than we said we would. Needless to say, it's been a rather cold evening here at home, but I think things are improving. However, I do believe that I will be taking a little siesta from train watching until Easter Vacation.
Anyway, I hope everyone had a good weekend!
Willy
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
Dan
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...
jeaton wrote:The Diner was a great spot to stop after a day's hard work on the Sacto trestle.By the way, this looks like a very good spot to pick up items that would be useful around here.http://shopping.msn.com/content/shp/?ctId=6126,ptnrid=164,ptnrdata=301851>1=9229
The Diner was a great spot to stop after a day's hard work on the Sacto trestle.
By the way, this looks like a very good spot to pick up items that would be useful around here.
http://shopping.msn.com/content/shp/?ctId=6126,ptnrid=164,ptnrdata=301851>1=9229
"What's you talkin' 'bout Jay"; 99% of that stuff is already
on the premises!!
cherokee woman wrote: Larry, the bbq chicken, and all your side dishes are really good today. My compliments to the griller!!
Larry, the bbq chicken, and all your side dishes are really good today. My compliments to the griller!!
Thank you from the crew:
I helped get the first batch (about 500 halves) on the fire (including getting the fire going), but I'm the man in charge of the cash register, so had to head inside to sell.
There's plenty of chicken left in the cooler - crowds have been down at almost everyone's events in the recent past, and we had more than we'd like left over. We'll be cutting back some from now on. I'd rather run out than have a lot left over.
Glad you all enjoyed!
"We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo Possum "We have met the anemone... and he is Russ." Bucky Katt "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in physics
Duff, DF is correct. I will cook breakfast any time of the day, or night, whenever someone requests something from the breakfast menu.
And here's your fries and a bowl of soup.
We don't need a 24-hour breakfast sign. Heck, there's nothing to say that waffles can't be eaten for lunch or even for dinner. Same with omelets or any other "breakfast" food.
We've got a great cook who will make anything you want, whenever you want it.
afternoon
well matt has grown some to get some new shoes and we got that taken care of.larry that bbq chicken smells delicious.will need 3 plates please!.csx was running some good stuff through defiance too.
joe
Good morning, everyone. What a beautiful day it is!
SactoGuy - don't forget that they don't need to completely clear out the debris before they can start driving pilings. Once they have cleared one end, they can begin reconstruction on that end immediately. My guess is that a single track will be up before April 10.
Modelcar wrote:....SactoGuy, unless the prognosis has changed from earlier reports...UP expects to have one {trestle and track}, up and running by April 1st...!! 2nd trestle and track by May 1st....
....SactoGuy, unless the prognosis has changed from earlier reports...UP expects to have one {trestle and track}, up and running by April 1st...!! 2nd trestle and track by May 1st....
It'll be a major miracle if UP can get a single-track trestle up by April 1, 2007! Remember, they have to not only remove the remains of the old trestle, but also remove the soil around it, too! That is a major demolition job that could take up to a week to complete because both the wood from the trestle and the soil are considered hazardous material, which has to be specially handled for shipment to a special landfill.
It is hard for me to see how they could clear the debris and drive piling {after surveying for their placement, etc.}, and build a trestle deck and all the rest by April 1st....but that seems to be what the reports are indicating.
Time will tell....
Quentin
Good Sunday morning to all!
Coffee is ready, along with fresh oj, oj/tangerine, hot tea, hot chocolate available.
On the warmer bar, you will find, for your breakfast: sausage, bacon, eggs, hash browns, oatmeal, toast, and grits.
Larry, sounds like you've got a very good Sunday Dinner going for us. Will look forward to it.
tree68 wrote:I've got dinner covered for tomorrow - my fire department's famous barbequed chicken, baked beans, coleslaw, macaroni salad, rolls, and pudding for dessert. Your choice of the usual diner beverages.
I've got dinner covered for tomorrow - my fire department's famous barbequed chicken, baked beans, coleslaw, macaroni salad, rolls, and pudding for dessert. Your choice of the usual diner beverages.
Have you noticed that firefighters often are among the best cooks around? My second cousin--who retired as a firefighter in the Sunnyvale Public Safety Department about a year ago--is a very good cook indeed.
By the way, UP is moving in a large demolition crew to remove the remains of the wooden trestle. They're going to use special hoppers to remove the creosote-contaminated wood and dirt to special landfill. Once the demolition is complete (hopefully in a about four days!), they'll start work on a new trestle, with one track done first hopefully by early May and the second track done by the end of May.
Had to pass up pizza tonight for prime rib at a fire department banquet.....
We're lighting the fire at 7 AM. Chicken will be on the warmer at noon.... None will be muddy....
Mutt, thanks for fixing the pizzas and putting them out on the warmer bar. Didn't think we'd be out that long, but at least I had my hubby to take over for me.
Hope everyone has had a very good day, and hope what's left of the evening, will be just as good for everyone.
Opps I almost forgot I will take some of that pizza and a large helping of those St. Patricks day cookies.
Happy railfanning.
emmar
Yikes!
I leave for a couple of days and there is four pages of posts in the diner to read. It is going to take a while for me to catch up!. Nice to see you back CW, you are the best cook in the diner and we all missed you (especially your menu planning skills).
I have been off competing at two track meets so I couldn't come in to eat and chat, but i did see some trains on the way to my hammer competition down by the Columbia River ( on the border of Washington and Oregon). I saw a lot of beat up rail cars and mismatched locomotives. Some of the best catches were a blue GN car with the mountain goat on the side and no graffiti. I also saw a CSX engine (which may not seem rare to all you East coaster's but they are uncommon out west) and a Ferromex locomotive. The Ferromoex unit was a first for me and a very rare find especially so far north. Unfortunitly I missed its road number, so i don't know what specific unit it was. I also saw a strangly painted BNSF engine that had what looked like a heritage paint sceme except that it was all different shades of yellow (and of course i didn't catch the road number). I guess trying to watch trains while driving the opposite direction at 60 mph on I-5 is not ideal. I did find a viewing bridge over a small yard though that I might go back and spend a day at next year. I would have stopped and spent the rest of the day there but I didn't want to get stuck in rush hour traffic farther north. (That and my Mom wanted to get home and was a little too tired to indulge my train chasing habbits.) If anyone knows why a Mexican locomotive would be so far north or what was up with the strangly painted BNSF I would love to know.
One happy train geek signing off.
And pardon my spelling mistakes, but i can't seem to type today.
PIZZA FEST is now underway, albeit a bit late.
Seems the Cook and number one helper are Still out getting supplies for the Diner.
All the "Usual Pizzas should be ready, so help your self!!
(including an Anchovie for Jay!!)
blhanel wrote: Willy2 wrote: I believe the 6936 is also in Council Bluffs today, so if I get some decent shots, I will post them. //instantly jealousI'd love to see that brute running.
Willy2 wrote: I believe the 6936 is also in Council Bluffs today, so if I get some decent shots, I will post them.
I believe the 6936 is also in Council Bluffs today, so if I get some decent shots, I will post them.
//instantly jealous
I'd love to see that brute running.
I couldn't find either the CNW Heritage unit or the 6936. No matter where you go, it's hard to see too deep into the yard and there aren't any roads that go through/over the yard, so if the engines aren't near the edge, you're out of luck. That was the situation today. It wasn't a total loss though as things were really busy today. There was an almost constant parade of trains through Council Bluffs and in just one hour I saw 5 trains. Not too bad, but it would have been nice to see what I was really looking for.
CNW 6000 wrote: Have a good day with Matthew! I hope you guys find something neat. How big is your layout, what era, and what road do you model?HAPPY St. PATRICK'S DAY!
Have a good day with Matthew! I hope you guys find something neat. How big is your layout, what era, and what road do you model?
HAPPY St. PATRICK'S DAY!
well we have mostly B&O,chessie,csx and N&W and ns and nkp but we do have some up bnsf and CNW too in ho scale.we also have uncle kens new york central train in o27 scale too.havent figured out what we are going to do with thomas yet!!!(our layout is only 4x8) out on the road we saw csx q390 with up4126 on the point and we also saw csxq91 going west with up 5322 on the point as well.so yeah I guess we were pretty lucky today.need some mushroom and pepperoni pizza for tonight we are hungry!
...All that clean up while the crews are trying to get rolling with construction of new trestles. Hope they can work around it {the clean up} and make progress on the new construction.
Happy St. Patrick's Day!!
I'm going to go to Council Bluffs today and try to get some pics of the CNW Heritage Unit and the unpatched Dash 9s, since they are supposed to arrive in a little bit. I believe the 6936 is also in Council Bluffs today, so if I get some decent shots, I will post them.
Otherwise, I hope everyone has a great Saint Patrick's Day, and don't drink too much green beer!
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