…Isn’t it unusual we don’t hear from her since we’re into the work week…[8D]
Q [:)]
I have a feeling she may be snowed or iced in. I do hope she is ok. [:)]
What did you think about the UP truck vs. train pics? I hope they got to you ok.
Mook was snowed in yesterday. Heard from her this morning. Probably getting caught up…
…Yes, the accident photos got to me in fine shape…That’s seeing it in the absolute…What a wild site. Ed did send me a copy last evening, but thanks Jim.
Mookie worked really hard watching the driver snow blow the driveway and sidewalks 4 times.
8 to 11 inches of snow - preceeded by sleet and ice and the delightful street crew that kept plowing in our driveway.
Had to chip the '81 LTD out of ice and snow yesterday - but it started right up - while MIllie huddled in the garage - it was 12 below at 5 am when we started out this morning. Work and school was cancelled yesterday - not a happy camper - you know I wanted to be here!
Hang on everything east of Nebraska - it’s coming your way! Lucky You!!!
Mook [|(]
It’s official. We in the east are crystalizing…
LC
…Yesterday we here in central Indiana…[Muncie], really got our first amount of snow that really covered the tops of the grass and made it look like Winter the first time this season. Really just about 2" of it. Then last night, overnight…it gave us a bit more but still in the minor leagues. Clearing is expected tomorrow and the sun is breaking through at times today…A touch of wind with it all. Not like the blizzard we had on this date in 77.
Glad you are unburied.Mix of crud snow sleet ice rain.almost saw a rear end then a headon collision. slow down when driving please
stay safe
joe
NO NO LC, were not crystalizing were just freezing or [censored] off !!! But my PowerStroke still fires up everytime the first time even when its covered with 1 Inch of Ice. Everybody KEEP SAFE, Slow down and look both ways before crossing!
Glad you’re back Jen: we all missed you.
By the way, kitty Mookie is gorgeous!!! First time I’ve seen her picture.[:)][8D]
Hey Model car, You are a fountain of railroadiana, let me ask you this, I’v tried all the local sources and come up dry.
Right where the former Nickelplate crosses the former Wabash here in Ft Wayne, on the former’s way down into your part of the state is an interlocking and exchange siding that USED to have a manned tower, named “Hugo”. The Tower is long gone,but the name persists to this day, denoted by a wayside sign that is obviously maintained by the railroad, stating “Hugo”
Have you any idea or info as to the significance of this name? It certainly has no bearing upon anything in the immediate vicinity, and I’m just curious if you might know.
Based upon my experiances in California, noting that the “Redondo” tower is no where near “Redondo Beach”, yet “kinda in that neck of the woods” based upon the direction the passing track heads off to, I’m wondering if “Hugo” might have any significance with any entities down in your area?
…AntiGates: Boy you have sprung one on me that I’ve never heard of…I’ve been in the state for over 40 years but I simply have no knowledge of the “Hugo” ID or significance. I’ve never heard mention of it before…but for sure it could exist north of here somewhere without me having knowledge of it. We rarely go north of this area…It is mostly east back to the home area when we move about…I just now went over to Google and typed in “Hugo railroad tower in Indiana” and it brought up info on it…Do that and check it out and see what it has to say…
…I just went over to Google and checked up on what the “Fort Wayne-Hugo” article had to say and found it has a wealth of info…AntiGates, you should be able to glean all kinds of data out of it to answer your questions on Hugo tower, etc…
I continued into the web site and found really interesting info [history], on the railroads around Ft. Wayne…Anyone interested should take a look.
First of all “Thanks” I really enjoyed flushing out the links, lot of good reading. Neverr thought about “Googling” for Hugo, since it seemed such a relic of the past, silly me.
I learned just about everything there is to know about Hugo, except where the derned name comes from[censored][sigh]
I will try e-mailing the webmaster at the bigger site source of infojust the same, “who knows?” etc.
Ifyou run across it, however, feel free to share
Well, here’s what I got back:
As to Hugo: A 1918 ICC valuation map listed the location at Hugo correctly or incorrectly as “Hugo, Indiana”. But the Wabash apparently had a nack of using acronyms before they were fashionable. Pergo near Montpelier is reportedly combination of Peru and Chicago. Perhaps Hugo is a combination of Huntington and somethint else? Incidentally, my 1897 timetable lists this location as “Muncie Junction”. (The north-south line that crossed here was originally the Fort Wayne, Muncie & Cincinatti.)
Here around the MD area, the towers are just named initials or letters, most seemingly w/o a reason: QN, WB, K. I do know WB is for west bound though
The waypoints on the Montreal secondary (CSX, NY) are mostly shortened versions of some landmark, like “River” for Indian River, “Vern” for Gouverneur, “Cona” for Lacona. A couple probably bear some explanation (Kane, Roots), but the rest pretty well make sense.
AG and MC
The explaination on the Fort Wayne Railfan site is the same one I’ve heard elsewhere. HUGO is short for HUntington and ChicaGO (the district names of the crossing tracks).
…Yes, on using letters for tower ID in the east. When visiting in the Johnstown, Pa. area in the not too distant past I would hear the “letter” towers ID after transmitting a message…on my hand held scanner, etc…on Conrail…ex. Pennsylvania.
To you folks west of us that were hit pretty badly by snow and ice…here in central Indiana the sky is rich blue and total sunshine this morning…but it was also “0” upon arising this morning and no wind. Will get to about 20 today. But what weather front we did have has passed on to the east. Good riddance.
…282: That sure seems to make sense.