It is an aggravating ear-worm, but it is also my personal feel-good anthem!
-Kevin
Why not? What do you think might happen?
Dave
Here are some images of New Mexico’s stunning scenery:
I regard it as irresponsible to publicize certain types of information.
Good morning, everyone.
Cool and rainy this morning. It was a nice walk on the trail.
It will be a nice sleepy day today.
Thanks for the stunning pictures of New Mexico Dave, Enjoyed!
Looks like you had a little fun at the Photoshop with this one though[(-D][Y] I think if you added a flying saucer somewhere the picture would be most perfect[*-)][:-^]
Some more album covers with trains on them.
TF
Rememberance Day today[angel]
Good morning.
Recalling 9/11/2001.
Shelley and I were in Halifax, NS, Canada where we arrived on 9/9/2001. We flew to Halifax from Nashville, TN on American Airlines changing planes in Boston, MA.
Early on 9/11, I turned on the TV in our hotel room. CNN was broadcasting a boring story, and I forget what it was about. Suddenly the show was interrupted. … Breaking news. …
A plane had hit one of the WTC towers. We spent the day watching the horrors.
About 50 trans-Atlantic flights were diverted to the Halifax airport and parked there. All flights to the US were ended. … We wondered how to get home and when.
Several days later, we rode VIA Rail’s Ocean to Montreal. We had a room in a Budd sleeper ahead the Budd dome-observation car. It was an overnight trip of 22 hours.
About an hour after arriving in Montreal, we boarded a VIA train to Toronto. We stayed two nights at the Royal York Hotel next to Union Station in Toronto. .
Next, we boarded Amtrak’s International which passed through Michigan on its way to Chicago. There was a delay of several hours at the border. All train passengers got off the train to ride busses to Port Huron MI where we got back on the train. We rode the train to Flint, MI.
At Flint, we got off the train and rented a car. We drove to Nashville where we got our car to drive home.
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Prayers of rememberance for all who died on 9/11.
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Dave: … Thanks for posting the beautiful NM pictures.
Garry
I was so glad to hear your current eye surgeries went so well for you. To see the best near and far for the first time in your life sounded so encouraging when I read it days ago.
Until about three years ago I had both really good farsighted and nearsighted vision. My farsightedness currently is still awesome. I have had people in my truck that did not believe I read the road sign way down the Highway before we got there and said I had been there before and I knew what it said[(-D] Who thinks like that? Like I don’t have better things to do than memorize signs[(-D]
Every year my nearsightedness just gets worse and worse. I don’t even think a current prescription last for a year anymore which is making N scale model railroading extremely difficult. My right eye nearsightedness is diminishing faster than the left. Hearing the success of modern-day eye surgery and how well it worked for you is an inspiration for me to look into getting my nearsightedness problem taken care of.
I finally have insurance now so I am going to look into this. I’m not too much of a doctor person but I would like so much to see things well up close again.
I remember the morning standing in the livingroom watching in shock with Judy that day so many years ago.
My moment of silence goes out to the lives that were so needlessly lost that sad day remembered.
Prayers for a peaceful world and hope
John
I have some very bad memories from 9/11, but not what might be typical.
The customer’s site I was working at closed down as soon as the second airplane hit the WTC. I returned to our shop. My supervisor was upset that I had left the job site and not finished the work.
He was dressing me down in his office when the phone call came in from World Headquarters to close our shop.
[banghead]
-Kevin
9-11
School was just beginning. My wife called and told me to turn on the TV. In one of the homerooms, I turned on the TV and told other teachers to do the same. It took a while for me, let alone the students, to realize we had been attacked.
After the first shock, I told the teachers to try to have as normal a day as possible. We had quite a few parents call to see if they should get their kids early. I think they wanted to just hunker down in their homes due to the uncertainty.
Edit: Top of the page!
It’s happy hour here, so have a drink or two on me. I’m cooking spaghetti, and having my drinks while I cook.
Thoughts and prayers go out to all of those who lost their lives and all of the lives effected by 9/11.
I do not remember the day as I was only 2, but I remember my moms story.
She was on the way to my aunts house to drop me off so she could go to work. On the radio she heard the news and ran into my aunts to turn the TV on.
When she got to work, her and her coworkers went and bought a cheap TV to watch the news in the brakeroom. When the boss found out, he sent out a mass email telling everyone to get over it and get back to work or else they would be fired.
So she did what anyone else in that situation would do, she typed her resignation letter and slapped it on his desk. She turned and walked out and flipped him the bird as he tried to get her to stay.
Kinda like your situation kevin, although I hope yours turned out better.
John- Do you think you could whip me up a plate? Sounds yummy
Good afternoon .
TF … Thanks for your comment to me. Are you sure you don’t memorize signs? LOL … I’m glad my story was encouraging to you. If you are thinking of eye surgery, I suggest going to the best available eye clinic in your part of the country. I had mine done at Vanderbilt Eye Institute in Nashville, TN which is as good as it gets in this region.
Everybody … Thanks for sharing your 9/11 memories. I should add to my discussion, we are thankful to Canadians who were very kind to very many people who were stranded in Canada as a result of the 9/11 attacks.
Have a nice evening.
Our family arrived in town late because they tied one on last night. We’re just getting ready to go to the hotel for two days and Judy asked me how she looked? I said beautiful course just like when they ask do I look fat in these jeans and of course the answer is NO!
A guy usually doesn’t say this but I figured what the hay. I asked her how I looked. She said you look like junk, go comb your hair and she got a way with that[(-D]
TF
Good afternoon from perfectville. It was another sunny day with temps in the mid-20s. Sure is lots of smoke coming up from Washington and Oregon though.
Spent the day at the computer working on this Estate I am dealing with, man I had no idea her affairs would be in such a mess. Talked on the phone to a nice guy from U.S. Bank for a long time. Trying to figure out how to get things done with the border being closed. I picked up a cheque for many millions at the Lawyer from a land sale that was part of the Estate. I drove right by PWRS on the way to the bank with it and was thinking how many millions in stock would they have on the shelf? I kept going.[(-D]
Just found out that the dog we used the 30 year old frozen sperm on is pregnant so we will be having pupsicles on Canadian Thanksgiving.
9/11 was a long exhausting day for me as was the following few days. I have told about it in the past so won’t repeat it. Still wrenches the heartstrings remembering.
I was selling some artwork once and the scammer alarm bells went off. It is a long story, but I sure had fun with the guy. His name was Rev Lumpkin Williams based in England (so he said). If you Google his name he is infamous.
We placed a notice to creditors for this Estate I am looking after and boy did the scammers come out of the woodwork then. They did not get far with me.
Dave, thanks for posting all the pics of NM, I’ll have to go visit and do a walkabout.
TF, sorry to hear you have to go through a two part service for your SIL. My Sister wanted the full meal deal for our parents so we did that. Starting with my generation though, at most we will have a get together at someone’s house and then privately spread the ashes at some point. Big funerals and big weddings seem to be a thing of the past in our social circles. My wife and I got married on the grounds of the Hyatt in Kaui. We said we would buy dinner for those that showed up, 18 did.
Time for a Rum and Pepsi.
I was playing racquetball. We came off the court all sweaty, and became transfixed by the TV at the counter for over an hour.
We remember.
It was foggy in Maryland and I was off that day watching CNBC. They didn’t know how big the 1st plane was that hit, and I knew a B25 hit the Empire State Building, so I figured it was a freak accident. Took the dog for a walk and came back and heard a second plane hit.
Heard some horrific stories from people who were there, that I wish I could forget.
I posted this to the “misc.transport.rail.americas” newsgroup on September 12, 2001. I’ve changed only a few words for this post.
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The View From the Bridge
Like everyone else here, I turned on the television yesterday morning and couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
But it was another working day. I tried to call, to find out what might be running. Didn’t get through. I didn’t try very hard to contact them - I knew there would be a train to run. So I left for work on my regular time.
When I got to the crew room at New Haven, I found that many of the daytime trains had been canceled, including mine, #173 on Tuesdays. In the chaos, the tunnels into and out of New York had been closed and then inspected before traffic would be allowed through. However, some trains were starting to run again, so I waited around to be available in case they needed me for something.
#149 was going to run on time from Springfield (to D.C.). That would be mine. I asked the Motor Storage engine dispatcher for my engine: the 915 - it was only one there. It’s one of the last “old-time” AEM-7’s, not rebuilt, no ACSES, and still has the old-time cab signal display. It’s an engine that remains a pleasure to run, rather than a contest. Indeed the 915 has changed very little since my first trip on it many years ago.
The inbound train arrived on time from Springfield, and we left on time as well, but waited at South Norwalk for a Metro-North extra heading up the Danbury branch. Their schedules had been disrupted as well, and they were running what they could trying to get things back together.
We stopped at Stamford, finished the run down the New Haven line with clear all the way - unusual. Then headed down the Hell Gate Line for New York.
Perhaps the most spectacular view of Manhattan island and the bo
Thank You, Old Engineman [bow]
Your testimony serves as a heartfelt, accurate account of a very trying time for all who witnessed the events. I hope your words live on forever for future generations so that they may have at least some sense of understanding for how so many of us felt.
Hell Gate Bridge 47 by Steven Siegel, on Flickr
Thanks again, Ed
We were at the orthodontist with our daughter, there was a TV on and everyone was in an absolute state of shock. How do you take something like that in?
Sacramento State Fairgrounds has one of the beams from the Trade Center as a memorial along with a huge floating granit ball with over 3,000 names carved on it. We must never forget those lost.
On a more personal note, we had to take our old cat to the vet last night. She was 2 months shy of 20 years old, and she just wore out. I hate that part of having pets. Today the air was so smokey you could see the effect just feet away. Seemed kind of fitting.
Tomorrow will be better. Looking forward to huevos rancheros and coffee!