Welcome to the first day of Summer.Going to Deshler to work at the park.Mother nature is sending rain for the June birthdays weekend.We’ll see what CSX sends by.
stay safe
Joe
Sun is out, sky is clear, a great start here in the lead tainted water capital of America.
Mostly cloudy, with intervals of sun and the occasional sprinkle for the first day of summer.
Of course, amateur radio’s field day is this weekend and there’s rain in the forecast. At least we’ll be under cover in a pavilion.
So much for the clear blue sky. Now it’s partly cloudy with solid clouds on there way. Gee, it only took 30 minutes.
It took that long?[:-^] The other day I got off the train and it was sunny and about 85 degrees. By the time I got home (15 minutes) it was clouding over and the temp was 75 degrees and heading down.
1st day of summer. I’m wearing long sleeves and had to find a warm, waterproof jacket to wear this morning. I could’ve canoed to work in the cornfields.
We had our mid 90’s weather in late May and early June. I can only assume we’ll see snow in July. Mother Nature seems a bit cranky.
Ducking hail balls here (golf ball size)- The Frod Exploder is sporting new dents in the hood and roof.
Out here in the great wide open, you can see the weather coming from a really long ways off.
It’s a wet one here…we’ve probably gotten two inches of rain this morning (glad I finished mowing the lawn last evening!). Not too furious–just a good soak for yards that may need it. And the cooler temperatures (around 70) are just what the doctor ordered for us after the past few weeks, in which we endured actual temps as high as 101.
CSX has a new headache out east, seems that someone routed a doublestack train down a low clearance line, with predictable results…
Guess the Cumberland area is getting a new bridge…
Hoped to be in Wisconsin tonight, but a fatality wreck in Kankakee screwed that up. Just two more hours that I have to drive tomorrow morning before I get home…
Good evening
Well the sun was out this morning.So was the Loram guys and the tie gang asd well.Csx used it’s magic shoehorn to fit 3 trains into south Deshler.Q 353 went south with 8 units.Neck is a little red but the chores got done at the trainpark.Mother Nature is gently raining on us now.Randy hope you get home safe.
stay safe
Joe
Understand they have been adding double stack traffic to the head end of Westbound merchandise train’s at Cumberland - block swapping type action. With trains being backed up on the Keystone Sub, it was not available for ‘head room’ so Terminal Management ordered the Train Dispatcher and the Train Crew to use the Mountain Sub for head room. This activity has been taking place for some time and my sources said the Safety Complaints were registered by both T&E and Dispatchers that the activity was UNSAFE.
Who knew?
So you were the one making all the noise on the cam…
Friends daughter had a corn crib blow over in a storm.They dropped off some pieces of it.Some people use the wood pile to drop of junk.I was just cleaning up the wood pile.Was also able to give a couple visitors tours of the museum as well.The donation box got filled.
stay safe
Joe
Also be watching on July 9th.That is when CSX and the contractors will be replacing the diamond.
stay safe
Joe
New “news” on the chat for the cam has the replacement happening on the 15th, instead. Supposedly via an “inside contact.” Not holding my breath - it’s been slipped several times already.
They need to do it pretty soon - the cars really bounce going over it, especially eastbound.
Surprised it has been pushed to the middle of the month rather than taking advantage of the 4th of July traffic lull.
Anybody that has images of that incident, please forward my way…teaching tool
Article from the local paper’s website contains a illustrative picture.
Thanks Tree (kinda helps while talking clearances)
Chico’s grapevine is hinting at telling Murphy Siding not to drink the water for a while. BNSF in big trouble just north of him at Doon, IA.
That was Balt that posted that, but you’re welcome!
Does make me wonder, though, if a crew ever goes under a bridge and wonders “are we going to clear that?”