Saturn5tony
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Good morning, peeps. 50°F, cloudy and wet outside.
For those that haven't guessed, the service manager is a former emloyee.
As long as his replacement isn't worse, it can only be good. It would be tough to find a worse one, but I have learned not to say never...
Our first house, we didn't know crap (!) about septic systems. Every few months it would back up into the lawn, just under the livingroom window. Looked like (!) in the winter and smelled like it in the summer. Finally, one of the guys who came to pump us out took a look around and opined that our drain field was higher than the tank outlet.Since I got my notice from the state to get my septic tank pumped out, I did some reading about them. I didn't know there was a filter in them to keep solids from getting to the drain field. If the filter gets clogged, it will cause the tank to back up. Sorta like your sink drains. There are three levels of stuff in the tank. Bottom is the solids, middle is liquid and top is foam scum. There are pipes that extend down into the liquid level, below the scum that lets the liquid drain to the drain field. The filters are in these pipes. Your first sign of problems are air or gas bubbling up through your lawn over the tank. The second sign is soggy lawn over the tank. You have a major problem at that point.
"Today is the first day of the rest of your life."Good morning. It's cloudy and 57, headed for 83.
Today is the first day I haven't dreaded going to work in several years.
Our first house, we didn't know crap (!) about septic systems. Every few months it would back up into the lawn, just under the livingroom window. Looked like (!) in the winter and smelled like it in the summer. Finally, one of the guys who came to pump us out took a look around and opined that our drain field was higher than the tank outlet.
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Ah yes. A room and a path.Or the old outhouse behind the barn.
That was the outhouse with the basement...Ah yes. A room and a path.
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Joe.... Again I appreciate your sharing your insights about Metroliners. Sounds like you do not agree with what I read about them not being reliable. I wondered about that myself because electrical equipment should be reliable.
I recall riding on the PRR between Philadelphia and New York and also Atlantic City when I was a kid in the 1950's. I believe it was 1920's era coaches and GG1's. Our family went to Philadelphia from Chicago and returned on the Broadway limited. ....
I think Walthers had models of the Metroliners, but I'm not sure. I would have paid attention if I modeled that region of the country.
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Oh, hell no!Terry--- Many Blessings to you, my friend. Any chance of you moving into that spot? Seems like you certainly have the talent and knowledge for it?
Garry: Keep in mind that my comments are 20-20 hindsight.The Metroliners did have reliability problems, especially during snow storms. And GG1s did have to come to the rescue. But overall the were a reliable transportation system. Business and Government executives found them reliable enough to depend on the Metroliner to get them where they had to be. Senators Bill Roth and Joe Biden were regular daily commuters on # 101 from Wilmington DE to DC, and the train was generally on time. The train was all coach, no Parlor, ran six cars and full, so others found it reliable also. The worst thing about the Metroliner, in my opinion, was that my pass wasn't valid on it. It's also true that there were regularly assigned Mechanical Technicians assigned to these trains, but they were mostly data collectors, who occasionally had to get out at a station, and reset a tripped breaker. There were ride issues, that were never resolved, even in the Cab Car era, and they never attained speed objectives, but that was not due to the equipment.
Everyone has an opinion based on their perception, and much negative has been recorded about the Metroliner. However, the reality was that the Metroliner reversed the decline in business usage of the Northeast Corridor, and made the case for additional investment in Passenger Rail, which didn't please everyone.
Incidently. GG1s were still pulling the same coaches you refer to through the 1980s, and you can still ride to AC from Philly, on a NJT Diesel powered push pull, although that service never took off as expected.