Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 6:00 a.m. in "The City", where the temperature display on my DTWS shows a brisk 33° that according to the NWS, feels like 32° with a wind out of the south @ one mph.

We have no current watches, advisories, nor warnings in effect right now, but that will change tomorrow morning @ 7:00 a.m. when the NWS has issued both a Small Craft Advisory and a  Gale Warning from St. Joseph to Manistee. until 7:00 p.m. tomorrow night.

The Small Craft Advisory may deliver southeast wind-speeds up to 30 knots with wave heights up to five feet, while the Gale Warning portends wind-speeds up to 40 knots and wave heights up to10 feet north of GH! Plus, the weekend may bring additional Small Craft Advisories with a good chance for rain to accompany them. Mariners are encouraged to stay in port and off of Lake Michigan, lest they join the myriad shipwrecks that are part and parcel to life on the Inland Ocean. 

Our overnight low-temperature this early a.m. will be 33°, while today's high-temperature will rise to 56° with an overnight low-temperature of 46°. The sun will rise this morning @ 7:31 a.m. and set later @ 5:25 p.m.

I didn't have to travel far yesterday to get pix for this blog. I'm not posting these photos anywhere else, so enjoy. While I was at my P/T appointment, a mysterious source of new ballast dropped some stone, along the tracks. Mary asked if I had seen the stone when I was leaving just before noon yesterday, but I had not. Also while I was out, Mary saw a train pass by heading south, very slowly .

Later, we discovered the source of that stone drop. The train returned in reverse with what Mary believed were the exact same cars, this time being pushed by the regular locomotives from the MMRR, #s 2019 and 2170. I noticed that some of the cars were designed to drop stone as they rolled by. Mystery solved.

The logo of the MMRR pained on locomotive 2170.

One of those aforementioned stone-dropping hopper cars.

Here are those locomotives heading south with a flagman to stop traffic, since the signals have not been reactivated after the recent track work.

Not as freshly painted as #2170, this is MMRR locomotive #2019 passing by.

Whereas MMRR locomotive #2170 was repainted more recently.

On their return trip southward, the locomotives had picked up some additional cars north of GH.

A covered gondola car.

A DBTC (Dreaded Black Tank Car).

And a tagged hopper car.

Also while I was outside, I took a pic of a man who had stopped on his bike to watch the train pass slowly by.

 

A true train aficionado. 

I also got a shot of this front-end loader that belongs to the GH Department of Public Works, as the driver had to wait for the train to clear the crossing before she could return to the public works garage on the other side of Beacon Blvd.

Sometimes, good pictures are as near as your own front porch.

Today, I have another P/T appointment, lunch, and then some yardwork with a self-imposed end time. There is also more reading to do. Mary is still hard at work on her cross-stitching and she plans to make lunch while I am at P/T, as I don't like to eat before a P/T session. 

Here is a throw in for you movie buffs. Kudos and a genuine No Prize to those of you under the age of 60 who can name the star of the movie and the singer from that movie that gave us the song I've listed below. The title of the movie that gave us this "One-Hit Wonder" released in 1968, was Wild in the Streets. Of course, that's without looking at or listening to the clip from YouTube first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEqWCH_4srU

Ciao.