No foolin’…
Here’s the last one:
http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/p/200914/2237222.aspx#2237222
Off we go now!
Now what are you doing up at this hour?
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Was giving a conductor a ride, saving him a long walk. Nearest TM/Carman was an hour away so I helped out.
Aww, nothing like a moonlit walk in the ballast at night. A man alone with his thoughts (which made it a lonely trek in my case).
Thanks, Dan, from a onetime ballast-pounder (in inner-city Chicago, no less! Thank Goodness it was only one time!).
Went to a railroadiana show at the College of DuPage this noon; saw a few UP/C&NW retirees there who have come out of any closets they might have been hiding in (closet railfans at work, perhaps). MC, were you acquainted at all with Bill Wimmer? He was there, though I was too much in awe to talk to him (those of you who don’t know, he’s the guy who liked to check the quality of UP track by running the DDA40X over it). I bought one reference book (the latest edition of Railroad Names by the late William D. Edson).
Next on the agenda today: Lilacia Park–nearly at its peak, over a month ahead of the Lilac Festival–and dinner with grandchildren and their parents.
P.S. There be tracks between the park and the dinner…
Thought the lounge might enjoy this short video clip I saw on FB today…
[(-D] Thanks for sharing ! [bow] [tup] You bet ! That was great ! (Much better than that overcrowded ship that sank about 100 years ago.)
[:-,] Just as long as there isn’t a grade crossing or livestock collision waiting around the next curve !
- Paul North.
Nice one, Darren! I showed it to Pat, and she said that all it needed was the music…then it repeated itself.
I can think of any number of reasons I wouldn’t want to stand out in front like that for very long. My line at work was, “It must be spring–I swallowed my first bug today.” (Serious bikers will know about this.)
Carl, I forgot to say thank you for the information on the MP express car. [:$]
Thanks for the info.
Yeah, like being written up for a safety rule violation. (No three point contact in case your wondering.)
Jeff
I was wondering about that too…
Hopefully the local area circusmaster will not see the video.
Give a man enough rope…right?
In exciting news…ATCS is now turned on in my area…so time to get to work on the scanner. It’ll be like shooting fish in a barrel now!
One for carl:
Today we had a LRS boxcar, ex Ma & Pa.
And another UTLX molasses tank - built in 75.
Another one for Carl-
Saw this one in the yard in Neenah, Wisconsin
Logimex
NDYX 816902
I don’t usually notice reporting marks on railcars, but this one caught my attention.
Zug, you got me with that one–my files don’t show any LRS cars coming from MPA, so that’s something I’ll want more info on, when you can grab a number. I suspect that the car probably originated with MPA, but MPA cars have been gone for many years now, and some have had many subsequent operators. LRS has just begun to acquire a lot of secondhand cars over the past couple of years, so I’m not surprised that something like this would turn up.
I hope those molasses cars stick around…
…long enough for you to get a number and a lessee stencil off them. They sound interesting!
And 22, you may have an unusual one here. Cars in this series may (816800-816904) may be lettered either NOKL, NDYX, or FURX (First Union Rail in all cases), but I don’t know whose cars they were before then. I’ve seen them as NOKL cars. One source says that they’re ex-AAMX (a Mexican company), same numbers, but that doesn’t account for them back to their 1978-1979 build dates (they were built in Canada by Marine Industries).
Check thy messages, Carl.
“I hope those molasses cars stick around…”
Very punny, Carl…very punny!! [(-D][swg]
Messages seen and responded to, Tom.
Nance, glad you’re not as slow as…
Have to go in for a EKG and heart monitoring this afternoon; the last of the examinations prompted by my problems last month (I still think it was just a virus). I’ll be wearing a wire (or something) for a day, which I hope will contain a sleep cycle and some strenuous activity…lawn-mowing and bicycling are among the things that come to mind. I’m still not supposed to be driving, but we’ve pretty much ignored that for the past week or so. Now working on some old GAEX, GARX, and URTX cars for the files.
Gave the heart-monitor people something to look at, with a bike trip to West Chicago and back. The monitor was returned after the bike trip. (I’m hoping to lose weight by tackling one of these trips once a week when we’re not away from home.) Most of the trains I saw on UP seemed to be stackers, but a couple of manifests livened things up for me. The best event was at Glen Ellyn, where a westbound auto-rack train overtook a manifest–the combination was long enough to get me westbound past the village’s three grade crossings before they opened to cross traffic.