Willy
Looking at the pictures posted yesterday, I noted people standing on the units and I thought "That's nice." The BNSF engine on display at Galesburg was fixed with portable stairs and plastic safety fencing to keep people (and kids) from falling and getting hurt. Someone "in charge" was sitting on the left side, but the engineer's seat was available for anyone to play pretend train driver.
It didn't look like the Heritage Engines were set up that way. I suspect that someone may have fallen or some suit decided "Hey, somebody could fall down, get hurt and sue for millions!" That's life.
"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
Willy, I feel your pain. It sounds like the kind of luck I would have at an event like that.
I'm currently watching an episode of Extreme Home Makeover that was filmed in Lincoln, NE- Ms. Mooks, do you know the recipients, the Mahachek/Fullerton families (now combined)?
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
Well, I wasn't able to get any of my pictures today due to some rule changes at the Heritage event at the Durham Western Heritage Museum. The 3 heritage units on display are right up against the side of the museum with just a narrow little platform to walk on alongside them. Yesterday, people were allowed to go on the other side of the engines so they could take good pictures. Today, they wouldn't let people on the other side, thus good pictures were impossible to take due to a person's extremely close proximity to the engines. Also, yesterday they were letting people into the cabs of the engines. That was a big no-no today also. In other words, I paid 10 dollars for nothing. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to have seen them and to have gotten that close to them, but it is not what I was planning on. I figure that if people yesterday were allowed into the cabs, than the people today should have been also. It was a big disappointment.
I'll live with it, but I'm really pretty unhappy this afternoon. Hopefully everyone else's day has gone better than mine.
thanks Dan for the pics.will take some supper for tonight but I'm going to eat it on the back porch.won't go back to work until tommorow night.
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").
Railfan1 wrote:Good Sunday Morning everyone. Mmmmmm.....cold pizza......
+1!
Joe-I sent you an email with some more pictures. Hope you and the family enjoy them!
Dan
For Sunday Dinner today, we will have a smorgasboard: on the menu:
1. cold pizza2. Fried chicken w/mashed taters, milk gravy, shellie beans, homemade biscuits w/gravy, choice of cole slaw or garden salad
3. Meat loaf, mashed taters and beef gravy, baked taters w/plenty of butter or sour cream, shellie beans, cream style corn, cornbread, cole slaw or garden salad
4. Salmon patties w/pinto beans, fried taters, cole slaw or garden salad, broccoli w/cheddar cheese sauce
Desserts today: chocolate cake, chocolate pie, lemon merainge pie, pecan pie, cherry cobbler, Dutch apple pie, peach cobbler.
Beverages: milk, soft drinks, iced tea (sweetened & unsweetened), lemonade, fruit punch, Gatorade.
I hope everyone enjoys the dinner selections today, and also hope everyone has a terrific afternoon!!
Message From:The Cook
Good Sunday morning, everyone! Joe, glad you all had a fun trip, and glad to know you made it back home safely! And Joe, thanks for taking care of breakfast this morning. I had intended to fix pancakes and waffles this morning, but looks like you've got everything taken care of!
LC, hope you have a great vacation, and also hope you catch lots and lots of fish!!
Anybody have any requests for Sunday Dinner today?
good morning
juice coffee and lemonade are ready to go.I also found some cinnamon rolls too.LC good luck with the fishing.back to unpacking.
joe
Large Hawaiian to go please!
Cold front moving through lots of lightning and thunder. Tree, it's headin' your way...
On the plane with the rod, hooks, line and flies tomorrow, goin' west...
LC
Glad you didn't get hurt Ray, but that couldn't be fun. Once I had to take some 40 gallon trash bags from big cans to dumpsters. I have a heave and the bag let go! It was a garbage shower...yech! I can appreciate the feeling at that moment.
CW I'll take one of whatever's closest and be devouring it in the corner. One more day of lathe and plaster......is two too many!
did someone say pizza????? bring it on.we are happy to be home.we have bags to unpack and stuff to sort out but its good to be home.I want to say thanks to Nora rick jay and Charlie for having us over.the action at cresson,galatzin and altoona was awesome!!!If we ever lose the lease on the diner I found a place in Berea we can go.
(ps cw you will be in our prayers)
Okay, I know I'm back about an hour ahead of schedule, but here is tonight's PIZZA FEST MENU:
1. anchovie2. Canadian bacon3. cheese - extra cheese4. Goetta5. Hawaiian6. pepperoni/sausage/mushroom7. hamburger/Italian sausage8. supreme9. dessert pizzas: 1. apple; 2. cherry; 3. peach
As usual, I've made three extra large of each pizza, so there should be plenty of everybody. Including three extra large of each of the three kinds of dessert pizzas.
And thank you to each and everyone who has wished me well, and given me advice regarding my upcoming surgery!!
CW - I'll be praying for you over the upcoming months so that your knee surgery in September goes well.
Ray - Sorry to hear about the accident at work. Sounds like a nasty mess.
Hot day in Omaha today with highs in the lower 90s. Tomorrow looks about the same. UP has three of their heritage units at Omaha's Durham Western Heritage Museum this weekend so I think tomorrow I will go and get pictures of them. Hopefully the pictures will be good enough to post!
TTFN.
I too, am a candidate for knee surgery, but I am a long way from seeing that actually happen. A former doctor of mine once told me that I would be better off waiting until I can no longer tollerate the pain in my knee joints. So far, I've been doing good. My chiropractor once recommended that I see an orthopedic surgeon and have both knees scoped, but after seeing the specialist that she had recommended in my initial consultation, he told me that I don't need this type of operation, and that it would not necessarily eliminate the grinding in my knee joints. He told me that he thought I was maintaining my knee joints just fine.
I got home from work at Wendy's within the last 15 or 20 minutes and I had worked nearly seven hours today. I had a bit of a mishap at work, I didn't get hurt, but it really made me mad. We keep four eight-gallon buckets lined with heavy plastic bags underneath the grills where we fry hamburgers, and this is what we use to catch the drippings of grease. Every morning we take the grease out to the dumpsters, and because of it's density, a bag of grease can weigh quite a lot. I had nearly reached the dumpster with one bag of grease when the bottom of the bag burst, and I had this slimy, greasy mess all over my trousers, half of my work apron, my shoes, and even my underwear was soaked with grease!! Once I was home I immediately stripped off my cloathing, washed my legs down with soap and water. I have to work the same hours tomorrow, so I will make sure that everything I need to wear to work goes into the washer in my basement.
I will be going in to work for my other part-time employer, Howes Oil Company at 4:00 this afternoon, and thankfully, I don't have situations like the above to have to contend with!
Ray
....C W: Have friends and aquaintinances who have had knee replacement and they are so much better now than pre surgery.
We wish you a quick op and fast recovery.
Quentin
CW -
All the best for a successful surgery and a speedy recovery. I suffered a severe trauma to one knee a few years back from an accident which resulted in two reconstructive surgeries and just under 18 months on the beach in rehab. At first they told me I would lose significant mobility and range of motion (30%+) in the knee joint. I worked hard at rehab the entire time and at the end was able to walk out with less than 3% loss of range and mobility that seems pretty much original condition. I'm sure you can do the same or perhaps better since I don't have any "Bionics" (although the cost must've been a $Mil or so) and your surgery is planned and not an emergency like mine.
All the best,
CW: By the time you return home, you will be saying, "I Can't wait to get the other one fixed."
God Bless.
CW I will pray that all goes well for you. I know it's early but I'll still get that in there!
Ray I hope your humidity goes down a bit. That makes things so much harder on everything and everyone when weather is like that. We've been lucky lately, low 60's or 50's in the AM with RH in the 40-50 range! I was actually chilly the other day going in to work at 4 AM. I hope your day at work goes well.
I gotta get some OT in today and then help my dad remodel his house so I'll take a plate to go and try to stop in here later.
Have a splendiferous day!
Good Saturday morning, everyone! Ray, thanks for putting the coffee on, making the orange juice, and bringing in the rolls and doughnuts!!
Yeah, our weather hasn't been too bad this week. Humidity has been down, so it's not too bad, comfort wise.
I received my instructions from the orthopedic doctor yesterday. Go into the hospital 6 a.m. Monday, Sept. 17th, surgery scheduled for 8 a.m. Should be in the hospital for about three days, then come home. Do have to go to the Pharmacy Monday morning, and get a prescription filled for iron, that I have to immediately start taking. They're going to do the total knee replacement on the right knee first. Also found out that I will be on an antibiotic for about two years, after the surgery.
Think that's about all the news on this end for now, anyway. Everyone have a good day, and please be sure you make it back in around 7 p.m. tonight, for our SATURDAY NIGHT PIZZA FEST.
Good morning! It looks like I'm the first one in the Diner this morning, so I've got the coffee brewing and I've mixed a fresh batch of orange juice. I've got two big jars of solar tea brewing out on the patio, and I've brought in a pretty good assortment of rolls and donuts from the local bakery for breakfast this morning.
I got out of bed this morning at 4:00 and I am getting ready to go to work at Wendy's this morning, will be starting work at 7:00 and will probably work until 2:00 or 3:00 this afternoon. We have 68 degrees here in Sioux Falls and the humidity is at 76%. I've noted that the weather conditions in Louisville where Walt, Paula and Sarah are, are not much different. I think the humidity in Louisville is a wee bit higher.
I hope the rest of you folks out there have a pretty good day!
..........Happy Birthday Jim. Miss seeing your comments on the forum.
tree68 wrote: GPS in hand (connected to an outside antenna), watching for mileposts and landmarks, when a passenger asks me "are you steering the train?" Unfortunately I couldn't come up with a clever answer, so I just told him no....
GPS in hand (connected to an outside antenna), watching for mileposts and landmarks, when a passenger asks me "are you steering the train?" Unfortunately I couldn't come up with a clever answer, so I just told him no....
Larry, you should have said yes; by "Remote Control"!
Dan, I'm not too shabby at doing the mudding, but............
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!!
My goodness - I don't stop in one night and am gone all the next day, and look what I miss!
Jim - Happy Birthday!
Cool here today - had to wear a jacket while on the train.
I have a Great Lake about 6 miles from my door. Or can go muskellunge fishing about 8 miles from the house. I don't even fish much any more.... I did used to sail a lot on that lake, though. Just don't have the time any more.
Today's funny on the railroad - I wasn't scheduled to work, I finally figure out (got my days off calendar out of synch), but I went down and rode anyhow. I'm trying to refine the profile drawing of the railroad (at least what we run) using a GPS, and also looking at the possibility of using a GPS to help cue our narration of the trip. So I'm standing in the baggage car (doors open, with gates on them - our "open air" car), GPS in hand (connected to an outside antenna), watching for mileposts and landmarks, when a passenger asks me "are you steering the train?" Unfortunately I couldn't come up with a clever answer, so I just told him no....
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...
Willy2 wrote:I guess I'm just lucky I'm not a farmer or I would really be worrying right now.
Very true. I hope that they all do as well as they can with some of the 'strange' weather we've been having.
Yeah, Willy, it was a very short visit Jim made today: he had to go to work this afternoon. But at least we've seen him in here!
The supper round of fish, fries, corn on the cob, cole slaw, etc., and Jim's birthday cake are all laid out, and ready to be eaten! Enjoy your supper, whether you sit in the Diner, or go out on the patio!!
Everyone have a good evening!!
Well, that was certainly a fleeting appearance that Jim made!
What a nice day it was today. The high was 83 degrees and the dewpoints never made it above 53 degrees. Next week we're going to have highs in the mid 90s Monday through at least Wednesday and there will be no rain tonight through Wednesday. The crops have survived so far, but I don't know how much longer they can do it. I guess I'm just lucky I'm not a farmer or I would really be worrying right now.
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