Oh it's Comming...

Matt Makens posted:

I don’t see any snow

 

Now you’re talking! ☀️

Yeah, and that Pacific white noise machine that never shuts off is just the worst

I want snow, it is winter, it's the holidays coming up. So let it snow.

Five weeks from today is Thanksgiving.  Bring it!!!

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

MarkStrittmatter posted:

Good evening here Is a short video from my layout.

Gorgeous winter layout, Mark.

It’s even better in person, Arnold! Mark and his wife Cindy did a great job!

There is a new Chief in town.

Expecting lite snow flurries in northern Illinois this evening.  

Portrait shot.

Jim, you are such a bearer of joyful news.  LOL

All I can say is, I am glad I am enough south of Erie Pennsylvania that I only get 50 or 60 inches a year.

Some more.

Santa Fe Jim,

I'm curious about the picture of the Milwaukee Road Train. I was wondering about the place. I don't see any catenary, so I guess this is either outside the electrified district or post 1974. That was when the Milwaukee removed the electrification and ran only diesels. I know that most of the pacific extension was abandoned, but some parts of that line were sold to short lines. Does this place still have track down? 

                                     https://youtu.be/iLlu9kWZ6j4

               Southern Pacific's City of San Francisco passenger train, stuck in    snow just west of Donner Summit in January 1952.

                     http://ctr.trains.com/railroad...stranded-streamliner 

Well long as someone brought it up 

Up on the hill at Soda Springs...crank up the volume!

Yup Casey!  That one made me glad I'm sitting in a warm house in Northwest Pennsylvania!!

My hat is off to the camera man and the crew!! 

My dad was on that SP train with my grandpa when it got stuck

12 minutes of sheer mayhem - Thomas & Friends in the Snow! 

SantaFeJim posted:

There is a new Chief in town.

Priceless picture. Would make a great holiday card.

Yes, and we're all trying to get home for Christmas!

Farmer_Bill posted:

12 minutes of sheer mayhem - Thomas & Friends in the Snow! 

 

Bill, The ultimate play value!  Thomas and friends are taking a beating!  Dad is really getting a kick out of it!!

We don't get snow out here. We just have to wear long sleeves and maybe a windbreaker.

I spent good train money on a snowblower, when l got tired of shoveling..after slogging across a snowy campus, l promptly moved to Arizona, and on to Calif., but ran out of  money, and returned to snow.

Colorado, that was what I was just thinking after reading about Matt's shirt sleeves.  Yes it is tempting to move out Matt's way, but I couldn't ever afford it after working for Pennsylvania and West Virginia wages for 42+ years. 

Speaking of snow, I have been having back trouble, and bought an ergonomically better snow shovel at Lowes today.  I should have bought a new snowblower, since I fired up the tiny ancient one I have yesterday, but it can't handle much snow at a time.  However, I have an order in for Mianne Benchwork and I am spending the money there.  When I am struggling going back and forth from snow removal to the chiropractor and back while the Mianne sits in an unassembled pile, I will wonder what I was thinking!!    

Farmer_Bill posted:

12 minutes of sheer mayhem - Thomas & Friends in the Snow! 

 

Somebody enjoyed themselves on a snow day.  Impossible to watch this video and not smile.  That little guy will be playing with his trains for the next 80 years.

Most enjoyable.

Snowplow on way up to the higher altitudes where the white stuff is falling rapidly.

My photo.  Steamtown's Canadian National no. 3254 heading to Tobyhanna, PA as part of the Ice Harvest train.  January, 2011.