Well Fall begins tomorrow moring at 4:17 AM(eastern time).Ns has some empties to pick up.Need to go to town to run errands.Matt will be home soon.Will check for homework first.
stay safe
Joe
I have a burr in my fur and will put it here in case someone might read it and realize it could be them.
When you go to watch/photograph trains, please be respectful of any other watchers that might be close by. We were the only ones in our watch site and made sure we had a clear view east (incoming & signal bridge) and west (the yard). We drive a small Millie, so we aren’t very tall.
SUV’s, huge trucks and even motor homes will pull up next to us and park so we are looking directly at the tires, doors or undercarriages on the west side.
Courtesy, to me, would dictate that you could park so the nose of your behemoth would be at Millie’s back door, where you can still see over and around us with no problem. Then insult to injury, the party gets out of this small house and goes to the tracks to photo shoot. He had his pix and we hadn’t even seen the train yet!
Residents driving by our site have to stop for xing gates. Most of them are irritated by the trains, but most of them also stop back far enough that they don’t block our view to the west.
We had to finally change parking places to watch trains a little longer. I love that you came a very long way in your small house to watch trains here. But I would have loved it more had you been a little more considerate.
Some peoples kids!!! Probably big city peoples in their RENTed small house.
Sorry Mooks and Driver, you were probably visited by the witless cousins of the city and ditch company arrogant dim-bulbs I’ve been been dealing with since I got home. The Class 1 and the rail-trail people that are being threatened by these bozos are lucky that there hasn’t been an incident.
Is there a “conservation of evil” postulate that applies to cluelessness or does it expand to fill the ever increasing voids between the ears? [?][?][?]
Must bring this up to top w/other one.
Try to be polite to other people.We watched the 765 get out of Fort Wayne on the wabash and no problems what so ever.Everyone was so nice.I then have a guy here in Defiance DEMAND,not ask that I move so I do not get in his picture.I politely told him to go back where he came from and find some manners.Time to take Matt to confirmation class.Need to stop at G+G house too.Ns was clear when I left work.
stay safe
Joe
Joe: Sounds like you never volunteered for the local rail museum/ tourist railroad during a Thomas The Tank Engine exercise with stressed out parents and cranky kids. (and then there’s the Incontinent Women and Poopy Pants Kids Tour-De-Bathroom hijinx on the museum grounds[%-)])
Sir Chicken: EEYEW!!
Joe - [tup]
Joe - That’s probably the same guy who was in Owosso in 2009 for the big steam event there.
765 was coming back into Owosso after the all-day excursion. Several photo lines formed, but one guy just had to be a little closer to the tracks.
Despite admonitions from others on the photo lines, as well as repeated toots from 765’s engineer, he stood his ground. His backside graces my picture of 765 that afternoon…
MC - that’s why I pretty much stayed in Thomas’ cab all day, every day.
Interesting military move today northbound. DODX flats with all tan international 20 foot containers. On all sides had 4’ x 4’ plackards with 6" 45 degree alternating blue & white stripes. Any idea if this marking was some kind of special move or destination ? Never have seen that before on military trains…
The description of the markings sounds like it could be the division markings (think shoulder badges, for example) of the 3rd infantry division. Last time I knew, they were stationed at Ft. Stewart, GA.
Nothing like some unit pride!
That would also make it a lot easier to sort containers “in theater” during a major dust-up.
evening
Ns was clear when I left work.Stopped by a yard sale.Found a nice office chair that is solid wood.Work is still very busy.Tomorrow the Bulldogs of Defiance play my old hometown bulldogs of Celina.Glad tomorrow is Friday.
stay safe
Joe
Joe: A NS went thru here as a DPU, but couldn’t see much more than a little black and white - it was on the other side of a train - natch!
But did get to see a blood-red CP behind a BNSF engine. Don’t see many of those thru here!
Leaving tomorrow on a fast trip to western Michigan for lunch and business. My sidekick won’t be with me, so I should be able to stop for trains without causing too much angst (on the way home Saturday–no time tomorrow!).
Last week I put out another sightings/research report on some of the more interesting (to my fellow freaks) cars I’d seen. A lot of the cars in there were researched on the strength of an e-mail received from my buddy in eastern Kentucky. He sent pictures; I put the pictures in the report and got raves! I’ll have to do that more often, except that I can’t get the trains to hold still long enough to take my own. I might get a few cars on the way home Saturday, if I’m lucky.
Linda report: mostly good news, a couple of setbacks. The setbacks are bouts of depression (being treated–successfully, she assures us) and one stretch of anemia (for which she’s getting a hemoglobin transfusion tomorrow–the juicy steaks were a temporary measure). The good news is that her marker numbers were down again, the new chemo is so precisely targeted that her hair is actually growing back, and she’s able to go without her brace for short times around the house, and do a few of the things that normal humans do (like shaving and taking stand-up showers). I’ve been getting program notes from her for editing, so she’s getting more active in the writing department again, too.
Best news: they’re planning on making the trip here–and on to Michigan–for Thanksgiving!
Carl, it is good to see your report as to how Linda is doing; may she continue to improve.
The physical and occupational therapy I have received so far here have helped me greatly, but I am not ready to walk without help yet; I still to hope to walk out of here.–and make it to Milwaukee for the celebration.
evening
Carl good to hear good news.Ns had a westbound stack train when I left work.Helped brother.On the way home encountered a massive q 324.Reported to have 245 cars.Also had 2 former canadian geeps.Eventually those will go to Columbus.So if the train master above is with us we could possibly see them go south in Fostoria tomorrow. Matt wants to make some deals at the train show.
stay safe
Joe
Carl - Great news on Linda. Depression is tough - You can’t just tell the person to “cheer up…”
Good day on the railroad. Had a couple visiting from Australia on the engine for part of a trip. Interesting.
Morning will come early. Time to think about hitting the sack!
Thomas duty - last weekend…then Polarization begins.[%-)] Nearly 90 degrees on Sunday will be a test. Except for the leaves, no sign of fall here yet.
Perplexing question for this week: When did the NYC/LSMS shops and twin roundhouses in Elkhart, IN get pulled down? (something so major with nothing mentioned in print…plenty of detail on the hump yard 1957-1960)
I was in Michigan (solo trip) yesterday and today. Colors are just beginning to turn around here–we have to go up again next week, and I expect it will be spectacular in bayou country.
MC, I spent a little time watching trains on Clark Road in Gary, a place you know pretty well. It looks like that new connecting track is open now, complete with AEI readers at one point just west of the road.
Could it have been in connection with the new yard that the old roundhouses were removed? I don’t really know whether they had been in the yard footprint. Wouldn’t they have needed them for stem power right up until about that time? I suspect it’s time to visit Elkhart when the museum is open someday.