Good morning.
9 degrees to start off the day and it will probably also be the high for the day. Back to the deep freeze with lows for most of next week in the minus teens. We did get up into the mid 40's yesterday and I ran the plow around the driveway to clean up a few inches of snow that had accumulated during the week.
Dave - Great to see you back in here. Sorry to hear that you lost photos. When the new web site was started, I also lost scores of photos. Bob has no idea what happened to them I have to go and update my Logan Valley post as so many photos were lost.
Tom - Thanks for posting so many photos form the train show. Looks like quite the show. Wish we had something like that up here. Not enough modelers and a long distance between towns.
Horseman - It was quite a tight fit for those locomotives in the Cascade tunnels. I have heard the same thing about the train crews.
I ran across some old photos of the Florida East Coast extension to Key West. Passed the bridges countless times going to out place in the Keys when we lived in Florida. We were thinking of taking a road trip to the keys until the shoulder surgery came up. Flagler was an important person in opening Florida up to the public.
Interesting history to the Key West extension. Flagler was hoping to haul freight from ships coming from South America up to cities on the east coast. Unfortunately this never came about, but his railroad did open not only Florida, but the keys to the country. Unfortunately, the hurricane that hit the keys in 1935 took out some of the bridges and the company did not have the funds to rebuild them. Many of the bridges still exist today and can be seen from US-1.
This last photo does look a but warmer than it is here. Darn shoulder.
The wife is up in Lewistown for a bowling tournament yesterday and today. I had to back out because of the bum shoulder, but if I would have gone, I would have missed the
Daytona 500.
Here is my track photo for today.
Later