What the........

"David F." wrote

Saddam shame? :-(

John.

LOL

Sorry .... still trying to work out this DCC thing .....

John

The new low budget plan for Amtrack....

Jim Stewart

Sorry -- I accidentally left a file laying across the tracks when I plugged in the power pack this afternoon.

I'm considering recreating this event on my work-in-progress N-scale layout. It would make the electrical work *so* much easier, allow the prodigious use of unpowered motive units / shells, keep construction & operating costs low...! Terry

I thought I'd left that behind in California. A few years ago we had a summer with several shutdowns from British Columbia to Mexico. Then I moved to New York. After the famous East Coast blackout it was supposed to have been fixed so it couldn't happen again.

This one was completely out of the blue. Previously there had been requests to turn off un-necessary equipment, lights etc. And at work they'd announce they were doing this over the tannoy.

But not this time. It happened with no warning.

"TW-Ohio"

Hmmmm ... maybe it's you!! It's following you around.

I have not heard a single report or seen a photo of Detroit or Toledo, both of which are apparently dark as well.

Have you wondered if an incident like this was caused because the entire system was overloaded and all it took was someone flipping a light switch on and *poof*...dark.

I know in reality at any one millisecond there is probably 200,000 people flipping switches on and off but it makes you wonder.

CBix

I always enjoyed the story [more than likely apocryphal] from the '64 blackout of a kid walking home with a stick hitting parking meters, and at the corner the power pole, just as the lights went out. He ran home crying "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it."

Oddly, last week I was reading my souvenir copy of Life magazine covering the November *1965* blackout. The circumstances sound suspiciously similar. I had lived in Toronto about 1 month at the time.

A friend whose father was from Mississippi had this little rhyme (all I remember is the first two lines).

When the nights are hot and sultry 'Tis not the night to commit adult'ry...

Jay CNS&M Wireheads of the world, unite!

This explanation is certainly better than the invisible thunderstorm they say was over Niagra Falls.

In the great midwest, home of the Wabash and NKP, the rhyme went:

When the weather's hot and sticky, That's no time to dunk your [dummy collar?]

When the frost is on the punkin, THAT'S the time for [collar] dunkin.

That's the one!

Jay CNS&M Wireheads of the world, unite!

In article , snipped-for-privacy@aol.comjkelm by JCunington dropped his wrench, scratched his head and mumbled,

I always thought that Dickie Duncan was like the great pumpkin...who only showed up around Halloween. :-{

Bob

Maybe at YOUR house...

Jay

In article , snipped-for-privacy@aol.comjkelm by JCunington dropped his wrench, scratched his head and mumbled,

Then I left early puberty, discovered air conditioning and found out that Dickie Duncan didn't need a holiday to show up. He could just drop in any old time.

Bob