Dan
Thanks all for the birthday wishes.
I am now a machinists' helper and loving it. I get nice and dirty but I am learning a bunch.
It certainly is not clean under those locos as every pipe or wire seems to drip dirty water, grease, or oil of some sort.
And don't believe anyone that says you can lay down on the track between the rails and be ok. THAT IS A LIE. The plows on many locos are are close as 4 inches above the rails and who is that skinny ! ! !
Thanks for the birthday lunch, gotta go.
Thanks all.
Jim
JIM !!!!!!
The best for the next 50, as you've just hit "Middle Age"!!
(Or was that "Senior Citizen" Status, I keep forgetting.)
Just for the "halibut", are you "floundering" in presents yet?
(you still have aways to go to catch up to some of us)
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!!
No doubt we are all going to be hauled into jail for putting coins on rails. Keep an eye out for white box cars with large locks on the doors and lines of rivet heads about 7 feet up the sides.
(It would be interesting for a track/wheel expert to come up with the skinny on the damage potential).
Happy Birthday to the father of the DD&CS. All the best for the next 50.
Jay
"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
Willy2 wrote: Let's see... I know I don't dare say this in the penny thread or I'll be flamed to death, so I'll say it in here. I've put pennies on the tracks before and nothing bad ever came of it. So there. Everyone can drive me out of the forum now!
Let's see... I know I don't dare say this in the penny thread or I'll be flamed to death, so I'll say it in here. I've put pennies on the tracks before and nothing bad ever came of it. So there. Everyone can drive me out of the forum now!
Willy, I imagine amongst the members here you're actually in the majority- let he/she who's not done that cast the first stone. I must confess that as a teenager I've tried it myself. My first attempt was on the main in Mankato, MN near the Honeymead plant (and my grandmother's house), and was unsuccessful as the penny bounced off before the first engine wheel could hit it. My second attempt was successful, as I placed the penny as far underneath a tank car wheel in the siding at the same location- when I came back later, the tank car had been moved and the penny was still there, nice and flat. Looking back on that now, I marvel at how stupid I was- I'm lucky I didn't get injured or killed by a moving railcar.
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
Willy2 wrote: Happy Birthday, Jim!! Hopefully you can make it in and say hi today. Let's see... I know I don't dare say this in the penny thread or I'll be flamed to death, so I'll say it in here. I've put pennies on the tracks before and nothing bad ever came of it. So there. Everyone can drive me out of the forum now! I've got some heritage units and e-units to see this weekend at the Durham Western Heritage Museum. Hopefully I can get good pictures to post. The weather will be nice enough anyway. Everyone have a good Friday the 13th!
Happy Birthday, Jim!! Hopefully you can make it in and say hi today.
I've got some heritage units and e-units to see this weekend at the Durham Western Heritage Museum. Hopefully I can get good pictures to post. The weather will be nice enough anyway.
Everyone have a good Friday the 13th!
I don't nessasarily condone putting pennys on the tracks....But.... If that's was the worst thing I did as a kid.......................
Happy Birthday Jim! Hope it's good with many returns!
Yeah, Jim, get your behind in here, cause your birthday lunch is ready!! As you requested, there is Arkansas catfish fillets on the warmer bar, along with cod, hallibut, flounder, perch and rainbow trout; side dishes are fries, cole slaw, and Jim's favorite cake for dessert: white cake w/white frosting (with blue lettering saying "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JIM!!), along with the pre-requisite chocolate cake w/chocolate icing for a few of us who aren't neccessarily fans of white cake (me, I like just about every flavor cake).
So Jim, have a TERRIFIC, BLESSED AND HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY from all your family/friends here in the DD & CS!!!!!!!!!!
Happy Birthday Jim!
LC
Willy
Modelcar wrote: M C: That brings up something I've wondered about. Does a derail and as you related, running derailed on concrete ties always automatically ruin them to the point they must be replaced.I would imagine they are not as forgiving as wood ties in that respect.
M C: That brings up something I've wondered about. Does a derail and as you related, running derailed on concrete ties always automatically ruin them to the point they must be replaced.
I would imagine they are not as forgiving as wood ties in that respect.
Generally speaking concrete ties that are impacted by rail wheels shatter to the point that they are no longer suitable for use. Wood ties can staill be used with wheel gouges so long as the damage does not destroy the integrity of the tie.
It ran five miles derailed before re-railing on a switch?
//shakes head in disbelief
, Jim!
Quentin
// Drags in....Goes to freezer and rolls out another drum of gatorade, drags out another vat of sunblock and heaves them into the truck. Last day in the Nebrasky Panhandle before we come back in 4 days (and avoid the Oregon Trails Day madness here in Gering/Scottsbluff). Maybe Willy can get the sun to back off next time. BNSF & UP running the wheels off cars up here. Head for Denver about 4PM. BNSF is fresh out of flagmen to work with us. Time for a break! Hope da boyz let me in the house tonight about 10PM.
BNSF had a costly 1 car derailment to go along with the 33 car screwup at Hyannis last weekend. At Torrington, apparently 1 car derailed in a crossing and was dragged for 5 miles before rerailing on a switch. BNSF now has 5 miles of nicked rail and destroyed concrete ties to replace. Ugh!-They have it band-aided together at 10 MPH for now.
PRSX 405 (GP-10, former IAIS locomotive #405 still in full IAIS paint, ex BN1415, GN 515 GP9) is marooned in the UP yard here at Gering. It seems to be almost homeless and scrapbait. Why isn't it on home rails (Sidney & Lowe RR at nearby Sidney?) Demurrage?
Happy birthday JHH. Hope you get in here and get some cake before the cat cabbages it.
Burned out/gatorade blue Feathers
Well at least something nice happened on the 13th! Happy Birthday Jim! I will tip an ear in your honor - that's ear <~>, not beer.
LC - Driver would be headed your way right after work, if I told him. But I don't want to tease him that way, so I won't say a word. For now. Wait for a mad moment. During one of those rare "he doesn't see it my way" times.
I need to go fall in a cuppa coffee....
Joe - when you get in here, check the bulletin board. I did one just for you and Matt! Only broke one crayon, too! May have to frame the next one!
Mook
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Good Friday morning, everyone! And may it be a Very Good Friday the 13th for everyone, especially for our birthday guy!
Jim, HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!
For breakfast this morning, there are doughnuts of all shapes and sizes on trays on the counter. Just make sure that the one with the birthday candle sticking out of it, stays for Jim!! (He did promise me that he'd try his best to make an appearance in here today!!)
Guys, thanks for helping decorate the Diner and Coffee Shop: you did a terrific job!! Everything looks great!!!!
Limitedclear wrote: Mookie wrote: Limitedclear wrote: I'll have a #4 to go.If I can get back tomorrow, how 'bout Salmon Steaks on the grill?I'm goin' fishin'!!Nice to have 3 weeks of vacation at last...LC Finally I can get a question answered I have always wondered about - If you live in an area where you can salmon fish, then where can you go to vacation? We live in a no mountain, no big bodies of water, no sand, no surf, so when we vacation we can go to Iowa and have a whole change of scenery. But like living in Hawaii - any place else must be a big disappointment....Moo? I can fish for landlocked salmon, coho salmon, steehead, lake trout, rainbow trout and brown trout in the Great Lakes a bit over an hour from home.Now my busman's holiday will take me to the Pacific Northwest for a bit of RR consulting. Nice work if you can get it...LC
Mookie wrote: Limitedclear wrote: I'll have a #4 to go.If I can get back tomorrow, how 'bout Salmon Steaks on the grill?I'm goin' fishin'!!Nice to have 3 weeks of vacation at last...LC Finally I can get a question answered I have always wondered about - If you live in an area where you can salmon fish, then where can you go to vacation? We live in a no mountain, no big bodies of water, no sand, no surf, so when we vacation we can go to Iowa and have a whole change of scenery. But like living in Hawaii - any place else must be a big disappointment....Moo?
Limitedclear wrote: I'll have a #4 to go.If I can get back tomorrow, how 'bout Salmon Steaks on the grill?I'm goin' fishin'!!Nice to have 3 weeks of vacation at last...LC
I'll have a #4 to go.
If I can get back tomorrow, how 'bout Salmon Steaks on the grill?
I'm goin' fishin'!!
Nice to have 3 weeks of vacation at last...
We live in a no mountain, no big bodies of water, no sand, no surf, so when we vacation we can go to Iowa and have a whole change of scenery.
But like living in Hawaii - any place else must be a big disappointment....
Moo?
I can fish for landlocked salmon, coho salmon, steehead, lake trout, rainbow trout and brown trout in the Great Lakes a bit over an hour from home.
Now my busman's holiday will take me to the Pacific Northwest for a bit of RR consulting. Nice work if you can get it...
I can help with any other banners and filling the balloons!
I'll take a plate to go CW, got softball tonite!
Well, for everyone's supper tonight, I have fixed:
1. Beef noodles w/beef gravy, mashed taters, and garden salad
2. got the charcoal grill heating, to grill pork chops and salmon fillets
Other side dishes tonight will be: baked potatoes on the grill, grilled corn on the cob, brussels sprouts, broccoli w/cheddar cheese sauce.
Desserts tonight: chocolate cake, chocolate pie, pecan pie, and ice cream
Guys, I need some help tonight, putting up birthday decorations for tomorrow. And be sure you put up some banners that say "Nifty, Nifty, Looks Who's Fifty!!" I've already talked with JHH, and told him that he HAS to make an appearance in here tomorrow, so we can all wish him a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
http://www.phoenix5.org/humor/WhosOnFirstAudio.mp3
There it is. It should play automatically through IE plugin with Quicktime.
Make me laugh every time!
CNW 6000 wrote: What about second?
What about second?
Yep.
I could be Costello...there are far worse things to be!
CNW 6000 wrote: LOL someone did read that. We could figure out who we are but I think that 'I Don't Know' which base I'm on...
LOL someone did read that.
We could figure out who we are but I think that 'I Don't Know' which base I'm on...
Who's on first.
Since I'm 6'-5" and have a mustache, I must be Abbot.
Mookie, enjoyed our chat this morning, out in the garden!! Think we could resume it later on tonight, and decide what name Brian and Dan should give their act?!?!
Thursday lunch is just about ready. I'm fixing open-face roast beef sandwiches w/mashed taters and gravy, your choice of green beans, peas, broccoli or brussels sprouts, corn on the cob, or creamed corn. And I've made fresh garden salads that are in the cooler, and sliced some red and yellow tomatoes that are also in the cooler.
Don't think I'm overlooking anything, but if I am, I'm sure someone around here will remind me.
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