Running Bear's August 2022 Coffee Shop

[MikeInHubCity]

Used to drive HWY 10 west out to I94 on business calls to Black River Falls. In the Spring and Summer they use HWy 10 to line up for the bombing run practices and they’d be 100’ above ground. If you weren’t paying attention before the 1st jet flew over you definitely were after that. The night bombing runs were scary if on Hwy10

I bet they would be. The sonic booms worried me the first time I heard them, until I learned what the sound was.

 

[Boris]

Now that the backlog at the ports is flowing retailers are going from Out of Stock to Over Stock.

That's the hazard of off shore sourcing, eh? Ollies is buying a lot of inventory for quick resale.

 

[MikeInHubCity]

Good evening. 71° degrees and still cloudy, but supposed to clear over night. In the last 24 hours, we have had 0.72" of rain at the Rutgers weather station. That's the first measurable rain since the 3" rainfall on 8/11. Fortunately, it appears most of my lawn is beginning to green up, although I think I will have to thatch and seed parts of the front and sides. Early September is a good time for that project.

I have been spending about 90" per day in the train room, mostly organizing my next phase of my layout's development. Lower back pain limits what I do and for how long. Hopefully this will pass quickly, as it usually does.

I was not in the mood for baseball, so I'm missing the Mets vs Yankees and the White Sox vs. the O's. I spent some time catching up with the Capitals Blog. NBC is selling off it's Regional Sports Networks. NBC Sports Washington is being sold to Monumental Sports & Entertainment, (Owner of the Capitals and Wizards Franchises). At least they didn't sell to MASN. I do watch a lot of Capitals games over the course of a season.

This evening, I watched a recent documentary about Centralia, PA on U-Tube. Centralia is the town that underground mine fires destroyed, over a period of time beginning in the early 1960s, through the 1990s. Started when the town began using a played out mine shaft as the town dump, and then decided to burn the trash in a controlled burn,resulting in setting a vein of coal on fire. That coal is still burning, and moving Eastward.

Some very nice work displayed here of late, Dave B, Curt, Tom O, and Willie, Hughie and others. I need to grab a glove and get into the modeling game.

Later

Joe- I think Centralia is down to a whopping population of 4.

 

[kbkchooch]

Just some of the hopper addiction I have!

 

[bnsf971]

Karl, I found something in your neck of the woods you might be Interested in. I sent a link on Fecesbook.

 

[Sirfoldalot]

Sherrel, if you can find the time i think you would enjoy the three newest Star Trek movies. They are true to the original show.
"Star Trek", 2009
"Star Trek into Darkness", 2013
"Star Trek Beyond", 2016
Dr. McCoy was always one of my favorite characters from the original TV show. The guy that plays Dr. McCoy in the new movies does not disappoint. In my opinion, they did an excellent job of casting these movies. I loved all three!

I hope for the best for Charlie.

LOUIS - Which one have I seen (several times) about Spock's home planet being destroyed by the mother of all drills?
I do not think I have seen all three?

The best one of all was the one with "V o y G E R" - the machine planet!
(one of the set)
Charlie will survive (I think) - I may not! lol

 

[Sirfoldalot]

Could not get the Bold to go away - my apologies ...

Speaking of airplanes ==

When I was only 7-8 YO - The B-36's out of Carswell AFB would make low level bombing runs - I'm talking about below 500 feet - on the oil refinery near where we lived. You have not lived until hearing that sound and the window panes shakings and the ground quivering. I can still visualize them and the sound!

 

[Sirfoldalot]

KARL - That is ONE AWESOME PHOTO! Is that your former layout, or a club somewhere's?

 

[Patrick]

Morning all,

In a bit late as I was processing peaches for the dehydrator. Picked 1.5 bushels last night, Ran some over to the neighbors on each side of me and across the street. Taking a box to the office for other employees to partake of. I'd freeze some but both freezers are full. Mostly of meat, which we gotta start using.

Karl: Mel said the sugar was free, not sugar free.

Currently 64° and clear, going for a high of 93° later.

BBL

 

[santafewillie]

The B-36's out of Carswell AFB would make low level bombing runs - I'm talking about below 500 feet - on the oil refinery near where we lived. You have not lived until hearing that sound and the window panes shakings and the ground quivering. I can still visualize them and the sound!

Sherrel - While the B-36's were long gone when I moved here in 1981, we always had a lot of low-level B-52 and KC-135 traffic over our house in the 80's and early 90's coming out of Carswell. Lots of Huey helicopters as well. At the time we also saw a lot of F-14's, F-16's and F-111's, but I believe that they came from the Naval Air Station in Grand Prairie instead of Carswell. Quite impressive at times. That all went away in the late 90's when they closed those bases. They were always quite low so as not to interfere with commercial traffic from DFW and Love Field airports. I get a lot of that commercial traffic now but it isn't nearly as loud.

 

[OBTC 1909]

Good morning all! 55 headed for 82 and sunny, much like yesterday. I missed stopping in here yesterday. Work has continued being insanely busy with the start of the new semester. I don't currently have any help and I'm buried in work. Monday, the point of sale software in the cafeteria quit working after what I suspect was file corruption after a power outage over the weekend. Took half the day to get that going again and I had help tickets piling up the whole time I was dealing with that. Yesterday wasn't quite as busy but it was still running from one place to another almost all day. Today looks to be more of the same. Gotta finish getting ready for work now. Hope you all have a great day!

 

[bnsf971]

LOUIS - Which one have I seen (several times) about Spock's home planet being destroyed by the mother of all drills?
I do not think I have seen all three?

I'm not Louis, but it was Star Trek. The latest revisitation of the original series.

 

[MikeInHubCity]

A couple chaffles with sour cream & a couple slices of scrapple. Tall black cuppa, PATY.

 

[Sirfoldalot]

HEY You All! We;re at 66 this AM and looking for 93 ahead.
Mostly the same as prior days.
Today: Mostly sunny and very warm. Afternoon breezes , high near 93°F .

Pollen level is rated "low-medium".

I'm prolly going to be pretty quiet today -- still have sticker shock from the VET bill!
Poor little guy is still sort of "out to lunch" - which is good at this point; he had a teeth cleaning while he was "out" for the surgery - pulled 7 teeth!

When I paid the bill, I thought I was buying the place - I asked if it included a key to the door?

 

[Sirfoldalot]

I'm not Louis, but it was Star Trek. The latest revisitation of the original series.

I wonder why I have not seen the other two?
Perhaps they have not been "FREE"?

 

[kbkchooch]

KARL - That is ONE AWESOME PHOTO! Is that your former layout, or a club somewhere's?

That was my train on the club’s modular layout, many moons ago.

 

[TLOC]

I bet they would be. The sonic booms worried me the first time I heard them, until I learned what the sound was.

No booms but especially at night they would come up behind the cars and with no lights you wouldn’t know it until you saw the thrusters lit up as they went bye. Oh and the shaking of the car! I know the local counties were trying to get the practice runs over the counties stopped and just contained to the bombing range. I wonder if they had any success

 

[TLOC]

Sherrel - While the B-36's were long gone when I moved here in 1981, we always had a lot of low-level B-52 and KC-135 traffic over our house in the 80's and early 90's coming out of Carswell. Lots of Huey helicopters as well. At the time we also saw a lot of F-14's, F-16's and F-111's, but I believe that they came from the Naval Air Station in Grand Prairie instead of Carswell. Quite impressive at times. That all went away in the late 90's when they closed those bases. They were always quite low so as not to interfere with commercial traffic from DFW and Love Field airports. I get a lot of that commercial traffic now but it isn't nearly as loud.

B-52’s and tankers were based out of Sawyer in the Upper Penisula of Michigan. At least 250 miles away from our house. Back before the base was closed and turned into a regional airport the B-52’s used the USHWY 51 in Central Wisconsin as the approach path. While they never got below probably 15,000’ on a clear day you could clearly see the bombers. Hugh beautiful machines. The tankers flew all over and rarely on that flight path but they would sometimes circle the lake and do practice landings at the Central Wisconsin Airport in Mosinee. I think that all stopped in the early 80’s but definitely done before Sawyer even closed. The tankers though then based out of Milwaukee were still practicing landings at CWA before we left in 2014.

picture credit is on the photo taken from free pictures online

 

[TLOC]

Good morning Crew from a nice morning on the south deck in So. Central Wisconsin. Heading fron a low of 54 at 5:45AM to mid 80’s this afternoon. The humidity is higher but ok for now. The last few days were very low humidity days and glorious.

Still and will continue to be working on the transload area. Ties were going in last night. This was break time around 9:30PM when I shot this.

Hope to get the rail added today

Follow up 6 month appointment to the cyst I had removed in January this afternoon. They said 6 months but when it was scheduled this was the 1st available time!!!

The internet switch of providers yesterday went well until the speed tests. I had taken screen shots of the speeds in the morning so I knew what Spectrum was providing. Tests with the installer were fine 840 down 751 up. Then I said to test it on the plugged in network, 70 + down 9 up. More testing to find out my mesh network is fried for speed. The installers work order was wrong so he didn’t have the free WiFi router/modem so will come back today. Good guy not his fault the w/o was wrong.

enjoy the day

 

[santafewillie]

Good Morning All. Mostly cloudy and 73° to start our morning here. The rain stopped but the temperature yesterday only reached 84°, expecting 88° today before returning to the 90's tomorrow. Looks like the storms that were here Sunday night might break apart before hitting Mikey in Bama.

Started yesterday off with the team from the local septic tank crew who were here to pump out my septic tanks. Periodic maintenance. They were last here 15 years ago, so that's not bad. The $525 hurt but that's just $35/year maintenance. I don't have a sewer charge on my water bill or any other county taxes for sewer. Using Rid-X works well, but eventually they still need to be pumped.
It's dry this morning, so I can walk early before emptying the dishwasher. Maybe my wife will do that while I am walking. Then it's on the tractor to do some mowing. There's not a lot of areas that really need it yet, but with more rain in the forecast beginning next week, I should get started now. I try to limit myself to 45 minutes a session and my overall mowable acreage takes almost 6 hours.

Thanks for the likes and comments regarding my latest layout progress; Karl, Tom O, Chad, Smudge, Louis, Hughie, Sherrel, Patrick, Dave B, James, Curt, Tom, Rick, Mikey.

Out in the train shed yesterday, I finished up a few details with the newspaper office. Painted and installed all of the roofs, Painted and installed all of the windows, painted the loading area and added landscaping between it and the gas station, a minor detail. I also made, painted and installed the sidewalk along the side next to the street.

I will not be adding the mortar wash until I complete the other side of the structure. Today I will locate a dock door and add it and some roof details.
I did attach the backdrop structure of the bank to the backdrop itself.

Still need to fill in the area between it and the newspaper building. As a monotony breaker, I added occupants to a car going down the nearby street.

James - Late comment on those hopper prices - Absolutely crazy. Especially to me as I haven't purchased a freight car since 2014. I just don't need any more!
Sherrel -

Willie - You asked about Tom Holly; Tom lives in Grand Junction, CO and works as an engineer for the BNSF. The guy you mention about the Texas Western? I think may be Mike Corley?

OK, I was confused, it's all coming back to me now. Tom is a member of this forum and Mike is the one that I met several times at the old location of the Texas Western Model Railroad Club before they moved.
WOW! Good luck with Charlie.
Troy - I had to deal with onerous OSHA regulations for many years. Fortunately our factory never had a visit from them, but we tried to do most things safely. Many of their rules simply made no sense and made doing certain things more difficult. Some were good intentioned but were stupid and the intended end result could be had in a different easier way. Some seemed very arbitrary. Record keeping was quite costly. But the fact that we had a full time safety director on board did keep them away. Traditionally though, first offense was just a warning. If the Amish company got a fine, then they were probably cited before. And no, they never tell you how to fix an issue, just tell you that you are doing it wrong. Much of my knowledge of their methods came from one of our safety directors who had spent ten years as an OSHA inspector before coming to us. Over the years I completed the very boring OSHA 30 hour training course three times.
Louis - You seemed to be up rather late for you last night! 9:30-10:00 pm.

Today would have been my mother's 93rd birthday, but the Lord called her home at age 64 in 1995. I'll remember her forever.
Everybody have a great day.