Well tomorrow is Friday and the first day of “Fall”…
Could someone send Mother Nature the memo???
Ns was clear when I left work.Matt and I went into town to do yardwork.CSX was dropping ties on track 2.The flagman was born here in town.Old house in the neighborhood is getting new siding and a front porch.Need to run errands tomorrow.Going to be an early start to Fostoria Saturday morning.
stay safe
joe
If I did send the memo, it would say “knock it off!”. Do you have an e-mail address for Mother Nature by chance?
Yeah -We’re looking at another week or so of summer weather around here. Not necessarily complaining, but it would have been nice to have during the actual summer season…
Saw some decent fog while driving this morning, a few miles worth of thought yielded the following:
'Twas forty and foggy
Near Warden so boggy
At sunrise this first day of Fall
Though just three weeks prior
'Twas fifty degrees higher,
Now it is not like that at all.
(Warden, Washington)
We’re having a quite unseasonable hot spell (90’s) through until around Tuesday. After that, it will be merely unseasonably warm (upper 70’s) for a few more days.
evening
Chores and errands done.Just need to load up and go in the morning.Ns local was uptown when I left work.Friend told me that CSX is planning on putting new switches in this Sunday at west Defiance and the yard lead.Could make some interesting watching.
stay safe
joe
Putting the chatter in Chatterbox (lifted from my Facebook post):
I went from ho-hum to “Oh, Wow!” yesterday evening, then to “Ooof!” this morning.
We had driven to Cedarburg, Wisconsin, so we could see the exhibits currently running at the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts. They were good, but didn’t take too long to look at. So we were back to Kenosha for lunch, facing the hottest part of a day that broke records here.
The car was as good a place as any to stay cool, so we took Wisconsin 83 to Illinois 83, with the plan of taking that highway all the way home…almost.
We missed a CN train going the opposite direction near Antioch. A trip toward the tracks in Grayslake revealed an active Dog ‘n’ Suds drive-in that we hadn’t known about. And at an industrial area near there, were a bunch of SSAM (Sault Sainte Marie Bridge Company) ore hoppers that I made a note on for checking when I got home.
Close to home, where Route 83 turns
That sounds similar to my situation after our circle trips on Amtrak last summer and this summer. I spotted and also photographed a fair amount of industrial and shortline locomotives that had me digging up their histories when we got home. The same applied to some Class I power that I saw in storage or at division points.
If I had known, I would have gotten the car numbers which handled the 737 fuselages I photographed at King Street Station.
I had a good trip up to NYC this morning, enjoying the business class car (nice upholstery on the seat, one free beverage from the counter, friendly crew, Wi-fi on board, good red cap service. From NYC to Utica, I also had a business class seat. The lunch offering is mediocre (in my opnion), but, otherwise the service is good. The red cap who took me and my baggage into the station in NYC put me on the train to Utica. We were delayed at Scenectady, and lost about an hour, but we did arrive in Utica at last.
I called Larry, and he took me to dinner, and it was a good meeting. I will see him again in the morning, and we wll go to Thendara and back, seeing the fall foliage.
Had a nice supper visit with John. He had a local favorite - chicken riggies, although his appetite wasn’t up to the large serving provided.
He arrived just as our train returning from Thendara was pulling in.
Tomorrow is our “quick turn,” complete with fall colors.
From my phone.
I take it your colors are worth seeing, Larry…
I remember the trip I took out that way a few years back, and all of northern New York was spectacular!
I’m worried about ours this year. The Morton Arboretum had an ad touting the colors, and we took a ride around it this afternoon. There were lots of colors, if one cares for green, yellow, and brown. We just might be too dry.
good morning
Dry here in Nw Ohio.Fostoria was a good train show.Csx still had trains parked waiting to make turns in Fostoria and Deshler.Going to be warm again today as well.Gussers say about Wed. mother nature will send a front to cool us off.
stay safe
joe
Debatable. Quite dull this year. It’s been an odd summer, and fall has kicked off with temperatures in the 80’s…
Johnny rode our “short turn” trip to Thendara with me today, and said he enjoyed the trip. We followed that up with dinner, again, then I dropped him at his hotel. He’ll continue his trip tomorrow.
Picking him up at the hotel before the trip this morning turned into a challenge - the main street in Utica (Genesee) was closed for a foot race. I ended up having to go through the parking garage to get to the front door of the hotel to meet him.
It was a busy weekend - four days, half a dozen tests of engineers and conductors, and a stint as conductor one day when I had to fill in for our mechanical department guy, who was running as the conductor that day and had a hot project come up. Whew.
Monday, it’s back to work installing radials (in the ground) for my “new” vertical HF antenna.
As Larry said, I enjoyed the trip even though not many leaves had lost their chlorophyll.
We had some good conversation along the way and back Now, I have enjoyed meeting three posters in the flesh–Carl, KCSFan (who is now deceased); he contibuted mainly to the Classic Trains forum, and now, Larry.
Thursday evening, when I got into my email, I learned that my college history professor will soon tunr 90 years old, and the celebration will be in Bristol 16 October. Katie said I should go to it. I made my Amtrak reservation Thursday, and I made my hotel reservations a few minutes ago. I’ll pass through Lincoln eastbound the morning of Friday the 13th, be in Chicago on the way back Thursday the 19th, and (I hope) pass through Lincoln early on Friday the 20th.
I still need to get with the Dog for getting between Charlottesville and Bristol. Maybe tomorrow morning.
That would be putting it mildly. Tom Skilling mentioned that we’ve been way below average for September and my weed patch is showing it.
We’re only about 475 miles west of you and our weather pattern has slipped into a Ground Hog’s Day pattern- monsoon again, naturally.
Send it to: “MOOKIE” at www.mothernature @Linclon.org.[swg]
Oh, don’t do that! She might just freeze the rains and send them back in a month. We had 11" of snow on Halloween one year. That’s not how you want to kick off winter.
I’ve had to clean snow off the “Pumpkin Patch” in the Adirondacks several times - mid- to late-October…
I love memos! I read them in the powder room!
My thinking is someone is going to get a whole lot of snow - for halloween, turkey eating, Santa Claus time, right thru May Day… just a feeling…