Good afternoon Guys & ?Gals from Central Calif [CC],
Btw, when I say CC my actual location here in Coarsegold is only about 12-13 miles from the actual USGS large Bronze maker cap denoting the Center of the state. Years back Dad and I went exploring just North and slightly West of the Old Town of Raymond, which is 11.2 miles from my location, and where my friend and fellow MRR John lives. I actually photographed the marker and the other interesting thing was that there was what looked like an old Steel RR Trestle that spanned a dry wash just a couple hundred feet to the North of the Marker.
*It's been a cold night as things were quite frosty this morning so the temp probably dropped down to about at least 30°F, what does WW say about the weather?
Right now it 41.5°F dropping to a low of 32°F. Christmas afternoon and night I expierenced some fairly high winds that I imagine were at least 25 mph or higher as the Oaks were blowing around fairly good.
I measured 3.38" of rain but did spill a bit when measuring, then it rained a bit more but didn't measure and ad that in.
I did run my trains, an early 2-8-0 Consolidation with a box car and to shorty coaches up the hill and back down and then added another coach to it and due to the Nickel Silver Tires on the drivers it would only pull about half the grade to the top. So I threw the block switch off and brought an older 2-8-0 Consolidation up behind the end business coach and the couplers connected in the pushing position so I threw the block switch on and gave it power and the helper pushed while the lead engine pulled the cars up to the RidgeCrest area and the Station siding. I then turned that block off and backed the helper down to the lower mainline. Even though both 2-8-0's run at much different speeds they still worked together just fine, but with wheel slip on the lead engine, but they really looked realistic with one pulling and one pushing!
Say Bill, That's some super serious rail bending, I wonder how much tention was behind that loop of track? I wonder if that section of rail snapped out when the Loco was lifted off it or when the cut it to releave the the stress?
Say Jeffrey, Seems as though there were high winds all across the nation.
Say Karl, I think that was a good choice as that's what I did too!
Hi Dana, A recent departed friend was very knowledgeable about the SP and all their workings.
Say WJLI/Joe, Sure seems like you got a considerable amount of rain, where about are you located?
SPSFer, I guess your fairly new to the forum and Flo's coffee shop. Good to have you join us.
, wind,
