Oh heck!

[Modelcar]

…In most cases, they don’t need any help.

[Soo_6604]

…In most cases, they don’t need any help.

Just carrying 'em

[al-in-chgo]

…Al:

Several years ago we stopped off at Blenko Glass sales and factory as such…Got to go back right to where they were blowing it into the art shapes, etc…

Also got to talk to one of the skilled fellows doing the work back where the work is created…A big curly headed fellow…don’t remember his name {that we had seen on TV on a BLenko Glass special} a short time before. He took us right back to the furnaces, etc…and really took time to talk to us about the process they go thru and so on…Really interesting.

I noted that RR track outside near the factory and the concrete underpass but saw no trains. But did enjoy the experience of visiting the factory. And of course brought home a piece of very red colored “art”…

a little [#offtopic] but if you like glassworks don’t miss Fenton Art Glass in Williamsburg, WV, which is just over an Ohio river bridge from Marietta, OH.

Don’t think any principal train lines go thru, but it is very close to I-77. And the Fenton people give tours that also get up close and personal. - a.s.

[CShaveRR]

Not moving it back to topic, unfortunately, but does anyone know whether the Westmoreland Glass plant is still existing and open in Jeanette (east of Pittburgh)? That was part of a family trip in the mid-1960s. I’m not sure whether it was a retail outlet, factory, or warehouse outlet, as I didn’t go in with the rest of the family. No “Oh, Heck!” about that, though–I stayed in and around the car, because the PRR main line went behind and below the place–I was plenty busy, and not bored in the slightest. Might have been frustrated, though, had I been able to hear the trains from inside the place and not do anything about it.

[Awesome]

Yesterday I left Hartford, WI and drove down Wisconsin highway “P” until I got to the Highway 16 bypass in Oconomowoc which would take me to I94 and Madison. Well, it was about 4:30 when I arrived at the Highway P / CN main line intersection at Highway 16 bypass and since I thought Amtrak was due about any time I drove over the track (single main here) and waited a few minutes. I was tired and did not want to wait long to continue my journey home to Illinois so after about five minutes or so I left and continued on towards I94…yes, you can tell what’s coming here…just at the time I crossed back over the CN main on my way to I94 I heard the horn of Amtrak under me but could not see the train due to my needing to pay attention to my driving…OH HECK! Two or three more minutes of waiting could have made my day…oh well, there will be other days.

[censored] Deal with it!

[SchemerBob]

Last week I was watching trains at the station in Burlington, IA and just saw three trains. Satisfied, I packed up my video gear and started to walk down towards the station and back around off the platforms (the station has these fences around the platform, so you have to walk all the way down to the station doors to get around to the other side). Well, of course, guess what I heard? A train whistle. I stopped, walked back up the platform a ways, and listened again. Nothing else. I was beginning to think it was just my imagination, so I turned around. I had just got around and off the platforms, when I heard the definate train whistle again. I had to run all the way around the platform fence and all the way back to the north end of the platform, and I somehow got my video camera and tripod set back up in record time, just before the coal train pulled in. What a close shave !

Another rule to think about: your ears NEVER lie to you. If you thought you heard a train, you probably did! [:D] I’d never heard about the 10 minute rule until this thread. Something I’ll have to think about the next time I’m out train watching.