JoeKoh wrote:checked the mail and yes yes yes its here!!!! matts asking a million questions as I type.stay safeJoe
checked the mail and yes yes yes its here!!!! matts asking a million questions as I type.
stay safe
Joe
Ours came in today, but looks like CW got to it first, so don't know when I'll
get to see it.
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!!
blhanel wrote: Hey Mr. Blysard, re Page 24, have you seen those MP20GPs running around?
Hey Mr. Blysard, re Page 24, have you seen those MP20GPs running around?
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
Long story, but I actually worked the Milwaukee's Morton Grove Patrol a couple of days in the early 60's. ("Greenhorn on patrol", Jim Smith, Page 76.) The crew I worked with were decent guys and gave me good directions on each step of the way. Although just ten years earlier, then just about every industry next to the tracks had a siding and shipped or received cars. We must have shipped them all as we returned to Galewood about 15 hours, 55 minutes after we started. In those days, crew fatigue had yet to be invented.
The next story in the Railroad Reading section is about a failed drop. In my short stint on the Milwaukee, I participated in several drops. As head brakeman it was my job to pull the cut lever on the engine. The conductor threw the switch and the rear brakeman rode the car to set the hand brake. I never had any qualms about getting on or off moving equipment, and I frankly think that the rule prohibiting climbing on moving equipment is pretty wimpy. On the other hand, there is no way I would do a drop as the lone person on the ground.
Having grown up and worked on the railroads when loose car business was the name of the game, I found this issue most interesting.
"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
Mailman wrote: spbed wrote: Funny I am seriously thinking of not renewing when mine is up in NOV. Yeah, I let mine slide; got *really* tired of Phillips using the mag as his personal political forum.
spbed wrote: Funny I am seriously thinking of not renewing when mine is up in NOV.
Funny I am seriously thinking of not renewing when mine is up in NOV.
Yeah, I let mine slide; got *really* tired of Phillips using the mag as his personal political forum.
FREEDOM FRIES in the Diner...
LC
Murphy Siding wrote: blhanel wrote: Hey Mr. Blysard, re Page 24, have you seen those MP20GPs running around? ".....built from GP50 cores, they haveCaterpillar 3516c diesel engines that meet EPA Tier 2 compliance.....Why would the cat engine be adaptable to Tier 2, but not an EMD engine?
Aren't those Cat engines the ones that can be shut off in cold weather without jelling up the diesel? Don't know if that has anything to do with the Tier 2 rating or not.
Limitedclear wrote: Mailman wrote: spbed wrote: Funny I am seriously thinking of not renewing when mine is up in NOV. Yeah, I let mine slide; got *really* tired of Phillips using the mag as his personal political forum.FREEDOM FRIES in the Diner...LC
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QM
Mine was waiting in the mailbox on Fri 06-01-07 up here in NE Indiana. Gotta love the Post Office.
Mailman wrote: Limitedclear wrote: Mailman wrote: spbed wrote: Funny I am seriously thinking of not renewing when mine is up in NOV. Yeah, I let mine slide; got *really* tired of Phillips using the mag as his personal political forum.FREEDOM FRIES in the Diner...LC ?
Phillips spent this month bragging on French RRs and railfans...
No thanks...
Limitedclear wrote: Mailman wrote: Limitedclear wrote: Mailman wrote: spbed wrote: Funny I am seriously thinking of not renewing when mine is up in NOV. Yeah, I let mine slide; got *really* tired of Phillips using the mag as his personal political forum.FREEDOM FRIES in the Diner...LC ?Phillips spent this month bragging on French RRs and railfans...No thanks...LC
Ah, gotcha. Yep, and that's not the first time he's done so either.
Tired of that too.
Oh my gosh, really?
The shock, the horror, the shame of it all....
after all these years to find out the truth in this fashion...
Murphy Siding wrote: jeaton wrote: blhanel wrote: Murphy Siding wrote: Being an optimist, I assumed that Kalmbach just went alphabeticaly to see who got their magazines first each month. It appears they are starting with the letter "T" this month.Um, "Siding" starts with an "S". "S". "T". Close. I've got a confession to make....my real last name isn't Siding
jeaton wrote: blhanel wrote: Murphy Siding wrote: Being an optimist, I assumed that Kalmbach just went alphabeticaly to see who got their magazines first each month. It appears they are starting with the letter "T" this month.Um, "Siding" starts with an "S". "S". "T". Close.
blhanel wrote: Murphy Siding wrote: Being an optimist, I assumed that Kalmbach just went alphabeticaly to see who got their magazines first each month. It appears they are starting with the letter "T" this month.Um, "Siding" starts with an "S".
Murphy Siding wrote: Being an optimist, I assumed that Kalmbach just went alphabeticaly to see who got their magazines first each month. It appears they are starting with the letter "T" this month.
Being an optimist, I assumed that Kalmbach just went alphabeticaly to see who got their magazines first each month. It appears they are starting with the letter "T" this month.
Um, "Siding" starts with an "S".
"S". "T". Close.
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Sure have...the UP has a bunch of them; parked right next door to us in Basin Yard...I will get a photo or two for you tomorrow if I remember.
One of them works the yard to yard transfer to us at the Port every day.
I took a photo of one of the 2109s sisters a while back....
Sitting at Gate 8, Port of Houston...note the twin "stacks: out the roof...
Some of the others, around 6 this morning, at UP's Basin yard, it looks like the entire 9 of them are based there, I couldn't get shots of the others, I was on my way to work, and they were behind the pressure vessel in the background.
All in all, a good issue. I've always enjoyed local freights, especially now that it seems every mainline freight is either intermodal or unit-carload.
On the San Francisco local article, it's worth noting that 2 of the 3 GP-38s that are currently stationed at S San Francisco for the S City Switcher job are DRGW with the Rio Grande swoosh logo nice and clear, and only an ugly splatch of armour yellow below the cab window for the unit number to ruin the aesthetics. I'll have to post a picture sometime...
I was actually considering writing an article for the Pier 96 contaminated dirt train myself, as the lines of hoppers and gons together look like there's a coal-fired power plant around the corner... and of course there's that Alco S2 as well. Couldn't believe this had been hiding in my own backyard when I first saw it. Glad someone else got to it though, and did a fine job on the story...
Oh. I think this is my first post. Long-time lurker, first time poster.
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
I can relate to not renewing the subscrp...
I never see anything except whats north of Kansas..Very little west or southwest or southeast..NOTHING except the NE and NW..I cant relate to just those areas all the time !
Thats why I dont buy it anymore...I do look tho, every month, to see if anything in it I can relate to...Danny
spbed wrote: Funny I am seriously thinking of not renewing when mine is up in NOV. Murphy Siding wrote: Sorry. I got carried away there. I just didn't know what the protocol was, for being the first to brag about receiving a magazine that comes to my house every month. Anyway, it looks to be a good one-as always.
Murphy Siding wrote: Sorry. I got carried away there. I just didn't know what the protocol was, for being the first to brag about receiving a magazine that comes to my house every month. Anyway, it looks to be a good one-as always.
Sorry. I got carried away there. I just didn't know what the protocol was, for being the first to brag about receiving a magazine that comes to my house every month.
Anyway, it looks to be a good one-as always.
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