http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/ A forum to discuss all aspects of the Nickel Plate Road (NYC&StL RR). Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:23:54 GMT William Powers http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19440 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19440 ... Jeff, Those gons were what Conrail called "rolling rejects". Not fit to load & moved from terminal to terminal when a yardmaster saw demand for gons in Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:52:54 GMT Lukas http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19439 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19439 Hello since sending in our membership apps a month and a half ago, my roommate and I have received the Nickel Plate magazine as well as information pertaining Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:09:17 GMT Jerry Swift http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19438 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19438 Sit back and watch snow and drink coffee or do modeling or read NKP books at the office?????  You must be the Governor of Ohio! Jer ... From: Dan Merkel Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:59:31 GMT Mark Morgan http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19437 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19437 I recall that day before the blizzard of '78. Got off work and it was overcast and warm so I tuned up my 1972 Dodge Demon. The rain started as I was finishing. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:41:53 GMT traininsp http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19436 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19436 That would have been something to see! I remember seeing gondolas loaded with snow in Buffalo and then being sent South. Jeff Coleman Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:46:56 GMT Dan Merkel http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19435 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19435 Jeff, I remember that time. That was the Blizzard of '78. January 25th as I remember. The weather man told us that this huge storm was coming and would hit Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:44:17 GMT Randy Williamson http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19434 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19434 Jeff, I was living in Conneaut during the blizzard of 1978. I was a volunteer firefighter and we were called for a big fire in downtown Conneaut at about 1.00 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:39:56 GMT William Powers http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19433 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19433 ... I was told about a big storm after the war where side dump cars were loaded in Conneaut yard and taken to the middle of the Conneaut Creek viaduct and Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:32:50 GMT traininsp http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19432 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19432 I'm not really snowed in but I feel like I'm back in Conneaut and not in central Virginia. As for snow stories, the East end carknocker's shanty in Conneaut Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:39:28 GMT richardhitchcock@... http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19431 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19431 All, Over this past weekend I got 25 inches snow here in my yard in Northern Virginia and tonight in tomorrow evening they are calling for an additional 10 to Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:27:10 GMT Dan Merkel http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19430 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19430 I goofed up. That was the blizzard in '77. We actually had one two years in a row at about the same time towards the end of January. That AC&Y train tried Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:10:33 GMT John F. Cizmar http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19429 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19429 Dan, does that mean that today is your birthday?   If so,  "Happy Birthday"!!!!!   Now for the weather report:  6-8" so far on the Southwest side of Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:17:01 GMT George Greene http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19428 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19428 It's not Nickel Plate related, but wasn't 78 when the N&W buried the borrowed D&H SD-45 somewhere out here in the flats. George Greene 1086 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:15:59 GMT George Greene http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19427 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19427 Not a bad thought "Guv".  I wish I could do the same today.  I am in my office in Chicago watching the snow pile up.  We have about three inches and it is Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:46:31 GMT Dan Merkel http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19426 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP/message/19426 ... ...and work on a good modeling project or read an NKP book??!? "The (at the office) Guv" [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]