Good evening
Back to work today.Ns had an eastbound autorack train in the siding.A westbound stack train went by after work as well.Had to go around a big accident south of work on the way home.Matt is working on the layout.Need to do chores.
stay safe
Joe
It’s been a fairly mild winter here so far. Mid to upper 30’s expected today with mid-40’s over the weekend, plus sun. Only problem is that the ground is pretty soggy in places due to earlier rain and snow flurries.
Mother Nature and Old Man Winter can’t seem to make up their minds here. Green lawns yesterday, several inches of snow overnight.
And now, this afternoon, we’re back up to the freezing mark.
I like the meme aimed at Michigan folks (but could be true here, too)-> Mother Nature: You can’t have all four seasons in one week. Michigan: Hold my Faygo…
afternoon
Sunshine here in NW Ohio.Ns had some empty cars uptown.Chores to do here.
stay safe
Joe
Sunshine? They’re promising us that we’ll see some this weekend. It’ll be the first time in at least a couple of weeks, and before that we’ve had a very wet season. The ground on the side of the house is a flat expanse of bare mud with a few weeds in it. I think the grass just drowned. I have some plants in a greenhouse that I haven’t had to water in two weeks. The relative humidity has been within a couple of points of 100% the whole time so the water is not evaporating. Oddly, except for one day, we haven’t had a lot of rain, just mostly an on and off misty drizzle. My mushrooms have mildew.
Quit hoarding the agua! The east half of Colorado needs it pretty bad. (don’t light a match around here, the range fire will be off heading towards Kansas in a heartbeat.)
afternoon
Sunshine here in Nw Ohio and 50!! Ns had the local uptown.Need to go to the hardware store and get new faucet handles.Going to see what we can see tomorrow with brother.
stay safe
Joe
Bee-yoo-tiful day here! We were promised mid-40s; the official temperature is currently 51. Tomorrow was supposed to be better; I’ll settle for a match (no, MC, not that kind!).
The trip to Elmhurst and Oak Park went smoothly, though I was cheated out of almost a mile of walking (Pat dropped me off at the library). I went to Elmhurst, stayed for an hour, then went east to Oak Park for lunch. They have deck all the way across the Des Plaines River (not quite solid) for the new third track there.
Dined at Q (my favorite Five Guys closed up), and I gladly left most of my fries behind in order to catch the next returning scoot to Elmhurst. Had I not, I would have missed a fantastic eastbound manifest freight that went through slowly, even stopping a couple of times. The time seemed to fly by (truth be told, the scoot I was on was having some PTC issues, and made a few extra stops of its own, not to mention arriving at Oak Park late…how many times does that happen?).
So, after less than an hour in Elmhurst, I caught the next westbound scoot (not late) toward home. There was a lunar light at the Park control point, and I hoped I wasn’t missing another good freight. It turns out that it was a grain train, but it didn’t go through until I could get off the scoot and watch it in Lombard.
While I was calling Pat to see if she needed any errands run, the home signal at Grace lined up for an eastbound on Track 2. I held back a little until that train (intermodal, with lots of repo empties on the hind end) blew through.
Sounds like the same train I watched leave Global 3 on the webcam earlier (around 2-ish?).
Well, whatever work the web lackeys did, they must have wrapped up, because I can log in and reply again. Customer service said something about hardware and software upgrades…
Saw the Burlington Job today as I was coming home from work, wonder when they started using two engines on it. Spent the afternoon reading MR, Trains and the new Micro-Mark catalog…
Load for the Spartanburg, SC area is ready to go when I get to De Pere Sunday, haven’t looked at my return load yet, probably a Darlington load to Chicago…
MC — we have been hoarding the rain as well. Neighbor claims 12.35 inches last 4 weeks. Every one in town gets stuck in mud if they even think about getting off the pavement ! Now supposed to have 6 - 8 days dry ( I hope ). Wind is blowing every thing around with many trees coming down. Have 2 trees am worried about.
afternoon
Back home.Was able to take brother to St.Joe where the NS( former wabash) crosses CSX(B&O). Ns had to wait while a Csx intermodal went west.L 96 on NS was having engine problems before he got up to SDI.On the way home I stopped in Bryan.Ns sent an eastbound with a mid train DPU.Matt has been working on the layout.He will go let the dogs out before going to work.Chores to do here.
stay safe
Joe
Jan. 5th and bright sunshine and 53 degrees. Not what we normaly see this time of year. Took the outside Christmas lights off the bushes.
afternoon
Cooler but the sunshine is nice.Csx ran some interesting trains by today.The local even went further east to a local elevator.Saw someone was a bad neighbor by dumping trash in a farmers field.People just don’t care anymore I guess.Back to work tomorrow.
stay safe
Joe
At 6:45 this morning, it was +38: I did not look out the window to see if there was precipitation. At 8;40, it was raining, and there was black ice in spots. It was snowing after church–that has stopped, but the temperature is now (1:55) 34.
Tree,
We peretty much had a multi season last week in Michigan, go figure. Faygo Red or Orange? Maybe Grape?
afternoon
Ns had plenty of cars to shuffle uptown.Rain here in Nw Ohio.Going to cool off but no real snow threat here.Chores to do here at home.
stay safe
Joe
Figured it would probably be a Red Pop…
Rockin’ Rye (error intentional)!
Utah had the fans on high, Kansas & Nebrasky had the vacuum clears on as high as they go. 61 degrees and 50+ MPH winds. The mountains are dealing with blizzard conditions, while the the plains have seen not a flake. Hanging light fixtures on the 11th floor offices were swinging several inches. Nobody light a match!