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#101

On saturday I went through Richmond, VA at noon. At 11 that nite I was still sitting on I-95 in Occaquan VA with a fuel gauge bouncing on E. Pulled into a cleared spot at exit 163 off-ramp and spent the nite till a state trooper showed up and called a wrecker which towed me to a park & ride lot and they called a guy who brought me out 40 gallons of fuel to get going. Got home finally about 5 last nite. What fun!!

Should brought my camera and showed you what an Interstate looks like in a blizzard. Closely resembles a giant parking lot with all the vehicles running with 3 rows of brake lites showing for miles…:wink:

Woodstove sure feels good right now…:wink:

#102

Wow Ken! That sounds like an ordeal. I’m glad you are okay.

#103

Ken, we were a day ahead of you, leaving Fredericksburg about 8 PM on Friday. At least I-95 was moving, but only at about 30 MPH.

I bet you’re really glad to be home in front of that fire!

#104

I don’t think I’ll be getting any plow pictures out of this storm. It’s going to be awhile before I can operate on this yard.

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I may be able to get one shot when they come through the neighborhood, but the latest rumor is that it might be Wednesday.

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#105
Bruce Chandler said:
Ken, we were a day ahead of you, leaving Fredericksburg about 8 PM on Friday. At least I-95 was moving, but only at about 30 MPH.

I bet you’re really glad to be home in front of that fire!


30 MPH would have been an improvement. I think we averaged about 30 FEET an hour.

Ric, it was just considered another adventure on the road…:wink:

#106
David Marconi said:
Stuttering again Shawn :)
I guess i should lay off the egnog. LOL NOw you kmow why the KMRR could not plow themselves out.
#107

The sun finally thawed the ice on the tracks the guys were able to get a short train to run. They need to deliver supplies to the guys at the camp. They have been snowed in since saterday. The didnt get nerly as much as ya’ll southern boys got Going over Cumberland Gorge

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Red Rock

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The narrows (Avalanch warning up)

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Spur going into camp Kittatinny looking up the deep valley (snow loves to collect and blow into the valley. the plow could not go anymore. engine had to go back and get more man power

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#108
Ken Brunt said:
Should brought my camera and showed you what an Interstate looks like in a blizzard. Closely resembles a giant parking lot with all the vehicles running with 3 rows of brake lites showing for miles.........;)

Woodstove sure feels good right now…:wink:


:slight_smile:

Forgot to mention…nice pics Shawn!!
:wink:

#109

Boys will be boys. Did someone say “snowball fight” :smiley:
Ralph
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#110

Wow, I have less hair—that was great Ralph!..least I was smiling :slight_smile:

#111

You guys just need to hire more manpower. My grandfather used to tell stories of the big snows in the '50’s when the B&O would call 4 or 5 section crews of MoW workers (500+ guys) to go down to shovel out the yards at the point in Pittsburgh. All these guys, with their ballast shovels, would fill gondolas with snow, then the yard goat would shove the gons into the river and let the snow float out.

But grandma remembers all the holidays he’d miss because, just as he sat down to dinner, the phone would ring. And he’d be gone for two days rerailing somebody else’s mistake.

#112

On another forum a real wise-guy is having a good gloating session and few laffs at the state of things over in Europe, and mocking the fact that almost 100 people, mostly the homeless, have died in Poland and parts east…

I reminded him that most of the east coast of the USA was virtually paralysed as far over as Chicago [O’Hare is still closed], and that gloating about other’s misfortunes was not the way to make friends and influence people.

He PM’d me, but I’m not going to soil this forum by repeating what he had to say about us over here.

To those of you stuck in all this, my best wishes, and to any over here in UK and Europe who are reading this, cheer yourselves up and have a REAL laff at the photo of Mr Obama getting out of the air-conditioned comfort of AF1 right into the horizontal blizzard…call me a hypocrite if you will, but I almost wet myself with glee.

tac
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#113
Terry A de C Foley said:
most of the east coast of the USA was virtually paralysed as far over as Chicago [O'Hare is still closed], and that gloating about other's misfortunes was not the way to make friends and influence people . . . To those of you stuck in all this, my best wishes, and to any over here in UK and Europe who are reading this, cheer yourselves up and have a REAL laff at the photo of Mr Obama getting out of the air-conditioned comfort of AF1 right into the horizontal blizzard...call me a hypocrite if you will, but I almost wet myself with glee. tac www.ovgrs.org
Makes me happy and even relieved at times that I live in Alaska where we are far more prepared to deal with such winter emergencies--not that we have many of them. The traffic disruptions and power outages have to be nothing short of awful. My sympathies to those of you who have to fight your way through all of that.

The irony of the Divinely timely severe winter weather at both Copenhagen and D.C. is, well, immensely satisfying, is it not ?

#114

Been getting snow all day in Chicago.

#115
Shawn said:
The sun finally thawed the ice on the tracks the guys were able to get a short train to run. They need to deliver supplies to the guys at the camp. They have been snowed in since saterday. The didnt get nerly as much as ya'll southern boys got (snip)
Well snow finally fell on the Kittatinny Mountain RR, eh? After all those pictures of your railroad all year with green stuff all around I was beginning to wonder… But...your RR looks pretty good in the snow too. ;)

Al

#116
C. Nelson said:
Wow, I have less hair---that was great Ralph!...least I was smiling :)
David M is not smiling. Maybe it was the shot to the gonads ;) Ralph

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#117
Ralph Berg said:
C. Nelson said:
Wow, I have less hair---that was great Ralph!...least I was smiling :)
David M is not smiling. Maybe it was the shot to the gonads ;) Ralph

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Like I stated in the other thread…
This is all your fault Cale!!!
:slight_smile:

#118
AL McEvoy said:
Shawn said:
The sun finally thawed the ice on the tracks the guys were able to get a short train to run. They need to deliver supplies to the guys at the camp. They have been snowed in since saterday. The didnt get nerly as much as ya'll southern boys got (snip)
Well snow finally fell on the Kittatinny Mountain RR, eh? After all those pictures of your railroad all year with green stuff all around I was beginning to wonder… But...your RR looks pretty good in the snow too. ;)

Al


Thanks. I would be lost without the change of seasons. I love sitting in the warm sun, working on the RR while the trains run. Then on the other hand nothing beats running a train through freshly fallen snow. My layout is in a good spot because when I get cold I can go inside pull a chair up and watch the trains. Of course my wife makes fun of me LOL

#119
Shawn said:
Thanks. I would be lost without the change of seasons. I love sitting in the warm sun, working on the RR while the trains run. Then on the other hand nothing beats running a train through freshly fallen snow. My layout is in a good spot because when I get cold I can go inside pull a chair up and watch the trains. Of course my wife makes fun of me LOL
I totally understand brother!!!! ;)
#120

No Ralph just out of ammo and lost my snowball gun :frowning: :frowning: