Good evening, Lou; Thanks for dropping by and the comment. I appreciate it. Have a great evening, what's left of it. And have a super weekend. Please take care and stay safe!
Good morning, Eolafan; Thank you for dialing in along with the comments. I appreciate it. That age will get there faster than you think. Have a great Friday. Please take care and stay safe!
hey MIKE MR ALAN BLAKE GOOD MORNING TO YOU HAPPY FRIDAY TO YOU. FROM INDIANOLA, MS. I SEE A NEW CONDUCTOR STEP OUT OF THE TRAIN LOOKS LIKE HE KNOWS WHAT HE'S DOING
Gooood Morning Mike and Ric! Today I do see a hint of dawn. Blue and pink... And, so quiet today.. no birds, or rooster, or music or back up alarms. Just beautiful horn music! I hope you all have a wonderful day! Jean
Good afternoon, Jean; Thank you for dropping by along with the comments. It was on the dark side of the sunrise today. I am sure we will see more of that for a while. The fab. shop was closed up tight this morning. Nary a soul. I did notice that several items they had made were missing so I suspect they are busy with installation. The roosters have moved into my neighborhood. I listened to them and the hens cackling as I readied the trike this morning. But we did get some great horn play today. Anyway, I hope that you have a great afternoon and evening back there. Please take care and stay safe!
Good afternoon Mike. It's so quiet there.Hope your day is going well!! So glad Francine has left Louisiana & all is safe.May you be blessed today, thank you for # 5.👋😉💥😎😅
Good afternoon, Carolyn; Thanks for tuning in as well as the comments. I too am happy to see that that storm is abating yet giving rain to a lot of area. Just hope that it doesn't cause damage elsewhere. It was quiet this morning. The fab. shop was closed up tight. I think they were all on the job site doing the installation work. It will be interesting to see if they are working tomorrow morning at the early hours again. I hope that you have a great afternoon and evening. Please take care and stay safe!
Good Friday morning Mike! A quick stop on a smokey morning there I see. It’s sunny and 62 degrees here in southeast Iowa today! Should be about 82 again today. First day of another 3-day weekend! Have a great day out your way Sir! I am here! Mark in Iowa. Nice to hear Ric this morning!
Good morning, Mark; Thank you for stopping by as well as the comments. 68 and brilliant sun at 0925 MDT. WE will have a few more days of 90s but hopefully without the red flag warnings. Still dry for the foreseeable future. May the silage whackers and the beet poppers get the harvesting done prior to the first snows. Enjoy the weekend back there. Please take care and stay safe!
Good afternoon, Robert; Thank you for stopping by along with the comments. It was pretty much a routine stop this morning. That makes my day once in a while. I think we have maxed out at 83 F. for today. I peeked ahead on the weather calendar and the highs in the 40s are just a couple of weeks away. I'm ready. Have a great Friday afternoon and evening. Please take care and stay safe back there.
Good morning Mike. It’s beautiful outside especially with all the smoke clouds coming from Southern California where I live in Orange County, it’s very amazingly that the fires in Southern California plays a part of balancing out the surrounding landscape in the mountains. Have a great Friday and weekend, stay safe and enjoy the Mother Nature.
Good morning, Chris; Thank you for tuning in as well as the comments. We are to get more of that smoke this afternoon. e tried to keep up with it here yesterday but don't have the trees to burn out here. Sagebrush and grass went up not far from here. Anyway, have a great day out there. Plese take care and stay safe!
@@Holygrail33gday Ric , you could bring a steam train in at speed and stop it right on the mark, 😂😂keep up the good driving, cheers mate from Australia
@@Holygrail33I been in the lounge the whole time, I didn’t step off. Wanted to secure a seat for the front range. I did see you walking on the platform though 👍🏾
How neat! Yes, I saw the flashlight as you came by. Have a great rest of your trip. Yoa hit the best place to ride thru the Rockies. Enjoy! Please take care and stay safe! Hope that you got to meet Ric!
Beautiful purple sky with a little pink this morning against a mostly dark sky. This is by far my favorite time of day. Picking up my 16 month old grand daughter Charlotte today, will spend the weekend with my sweetheart Ginny and me (married 50 years this past June) For one of our field trips hope to take Charlotte to the Martinez, CA Amtrak station to watch arrival and departure of either the #5 train or the #6 train. We are so eager to see her! Maybe I will show her today's Zephyr in Ft Morgan on the big screen TV Thanks again Mike, this routine of coffee and the arrival of the Zephyr has become something of a morning ritual these past few months T
Good morning, Ted; Thank you for stopping by as well as the comments. It will get darker for a while. I may catch the moon rise one of these days. I hope that have a wonderful day with your granddaughter. Just spoil the heck out of her. I also congratulate you and your spouse on your marriage. That is a blessing. To take Charlotte to see the trains is so neat. Can't start train watchers too soon. The real thing beats a video any day. Have a great Friday and weekend out there. Please take care and stay safe!
Good morning Mike. Nice video this morning. Nice weather in Albuquerque this morning. Glad your doctor appointment went well. That was a long day for you. Take care and be safe.😊😊😊😊😊
Good morning, Gerald; Thanks for stopping by along with the comments. Other than the imported smoke, it should be a rather seasonable day here. Yep. I did sleep good last night after the road trip into what has become a driver's nightmare in Greeley. Nice to be back on the trike this morning with a bit slower pace. I hope that you have a great day down there. Please take care and stay safe!
Good morning, Ginny; I thank you for stopping by as well as the comments. I appreciate it Have a great Friday back there. Please take care and stay safe!
Good morning, David; Thank you for dropping by and the comments. Happy to read your follow-on was a good report. Have a great Friday up there. Please take care and stay safe!
Good morning, Mike. So dark that it looks like the middle of the night. Sorry to hear you're already affected by the California smoke. Be careful of the accompanying respiratory issues. Glad to read your trip went well. Now stay safe, be careful and breathe easy.
Good morning, Jim; Thanks for dropping by and the comments. Yep. It was on the dark side of sunrise today. Gonna have more of them for a while. This area collects the smoke from the west coast and from Canada's western provinces on a regular basis anymore. There may be denser smoke this afternoon. Can't smell it. Just see it. Health warning were posted along the front range but the winds will be moving the smoke around out here. Have a great Friay back there. Please take care and stay safe!
Good morning, Ken; Thanks for dialing in and the comments. It was nice to go to Greeley and take care of not only health matters but get some shopping done too. The credit card didn't take too much of a hit. LOL! Have a great day back there. Please take care and stay safe!
Good morning. Not even a hint of a sunrise this morning, something I should get used to, I suppose, as fall and winter arrive. I hope you have a most enjoyable weekend.
Good afternoon, Paul; Thank you for tuning in along with the comments. It was on the dark side of sunrise this morning. Yep. Have many more coming at us. Have a great weekend over there. Please take care and stay safe!
Hi Mike-Cool to hear #5 tooting on the approach-please don't walk under any ladders&beware of black cats crossing your path today-Happy Fri.13th & thanks Mike 🐱
Good morning, Jeb; I thank you for dialing in as well as the comments. Does the broken mirror count?? 🤔🤣 Have a great Friday. BTW: Today is also "Bald is Beautiful Day". I'm not bald but that works better than "Bad Luck Day". Have a great Friday. Please take care and stay safe!
Good morning Mike from 71 cloudy mid Tenn. Storm remnants moving thru west Tenn and eastern Arkansas. Some rain and T/S still around. Boy some new Amtrak faces but still that familiar " allrighhtt," from the upfront cab(Ric). Bad news about all that California smoke, how long will it last ?
Good afternoon, Ben; Thaks for dialing in as well as the comments. Sounds as though you have not had to break out the water wings back there. Nor the canoe. Yep. The faces change and I have to learn them again. Seems as though I no sooner do that and it's time to change again. Oh well. One cannot miss Ric in the cab. That signature radio call is or should be copyrighted. With a wind that has picked up from the northwest, the smoke for the west will be here for at least a couple of days. I do hope they get some relief from fires out there. And elsewhere up the left coast. Hope that you have a great afternoon and evening. Please take care and stay safe!
Good morning. This year’s environmental gift is courtesy of Southern California; last time, I believe, it was from Canada. The Air Quality Index for Denver shows unhealthful for sensitive individuals. Nevertheless, have a great day.
Good morning, Robert; Thank you for dropping by and the comments. We tried to add some to the Air Quality sorrows with a fire that was burning along the I-76 corridor west of here. Bad enough the interstate was closed for several hours. This smoke infiltration has become an ongoing condition with the front range getting the worst of it today. Lots of haze here and the AQI went up a bit. Anyway, have a great Friday. Please take care and stay safe!
Good afternoon, Dillan; Thanks for dialing in and the comment. I know that Ric looks in and reads the comments. Same guy. Works different days now. Please take care and stay safe!
Good morning, Paul; I thank you for tuning in and the question/comment. I noticed several new faces in the mix. The conductors are everchanging. I know by face but not by name many of them. The "old hands" are now the senior conductors busy with the paperwork in the dorm/transition/sleeper/office car. With a couple of high visibility retirements this month, there will be more changes. The more things are changing, the more they remain the same. Have a great Friday. Please take care and stay safe!
Good morning, Rich; Thanks for stopping by as well as the question. That is one of the recent grads from conductor training. He has worked the route before but is still learning. OJT is a super way to learn. I am sure there will be more of it for him. Take care and stay safe!
Thanks Mike. I hope you have a great weekend.
Good evening, Lou; Thanks for dropping by and the comment. I appreciate it.
Have a great evening, what's left of it. And have a super weekend.
Please take care and stay safe!
HAPPY FRIDAY to everyone and especially those amongst us who are not yet retired and are still working!
Good morning, Eolafan; Thank you for dialing in along with the comments. I appreciate it. That age will get there faster than you think.
Have a great Friday.
Please take care and stay safe!
hey MIKE MR ALAN BLAKE GOOD MORNING TO YOU HAPPY FRIDAY TO YOU. FROM INDIANOLA, MS. I SEE A NEW CONDUCTOR STEP OUT OF THE TRAIN LOOKS LIKE HE KNOWS WHAT HE'S DOING
Gooood Morning Mike and Ric!
Today I do see a hint of dawn. Blue and pink...
And, so quiet today.. no birds, or rooster, or music or back up alarms. Just beautiful horn music!
I hope you all have a wonderful day!
Jean
Good afternoon, Jean; Thank you for dropping by along with the comments. It was on the dark side of the sunrise today. I am sure we will see more of that for a while.
The fab. shop was closed up tight this morning. Nary a soul. I did notice that several items they had made were missing so I suspect they are busy with installation.
The roosters have moved into my neighborhood. I listened to them and the hens cackling as I readied the trike this morning. But we did get some great horn play today.
Anyway, I hope that you have a great afternoon and evening back there.
Please take care and stay safe!
Good afternoon Mike. It's so quiet there.Hope your day is going well!! So glad Francine has left Louisiana & all is safe.May you be blessed today, thank you for # 5.👋😉💥😎😅
Good afternoon, Carolyn; Thanks for tuning in as well as the comments. I too am happy to see that that storm is abating yet giving rain to a lot of area. Just hope that it doesn't cause damage elsewhere.
It was quiet this morning. The fab. shop was closed up tight. I think they were all on the job site doing the installation work. It will be interesting to see if they are working tomorrow morning at the early hours again.
I hope that you have a great afternoon and evening.
Please take care and stay safe!
Good Friday morning Mike! A quick stop on a smokey morning there I see. It’s sunny and 62 degrees here in southeast Iowa today! Should be about 82 again today. First day of another 3-day weekend! Have a great day out your way Sir! I am here! Mark in Iowa. Nice to hear Ric this morning!
Good morning, Mark; Thank you for stopping by as well as the comments. 68 and brilliant sun at 0925 MDT. WE will have a few more days of 90s but hopefully without the red flag warnings. Still dry for the foreseeable future. May the silage whackers and the beet poppers get the harvesting done prior to the first snows.
Enjoy the weekend back there.
Please take care and stay safe!
goog afternoon Mike loos like another routine dayu today. have a nice hot friday the 13th. I hope mine is alwayus good luck.
Good afternoon, Robert; Thank you for stopping by along with the comments. It was pretty much a routine stop this morning. That makes my day once in a while. I think we have maxed out at 83 F. for today. I peeked ahead on the weather calendar and the highs in the 40s are just a couple of weeks away. I'm ready.
Have a great Friday afternoon and evening.
Please take care and stay safe back there.
Good morning Mike. It’s beautiful outside especially with all the smoke clouds coming from Southern California where I live in Orange County, it’s very amazingly that the fires in Southern California plays a part of balancing out the surrounding landscape in the mountains.
Have a great Friday and weekend, stay safe and enjoy the Mother Nature.
Good morning, Chris; Thank you for tuning in as well as the comments. We are to get more of that smoke this afternoon. e tried to keep up with it here yesterday but don't have the trees to burn out here. Sagebrush and grass went up not far from here.
Anyway, have a great day out there. Plese take care and stay safe!
Morning mike and Ric, have a great day, cheers
Good day, Lance; Thanks for stopping by and the comments. Hope all is well for you and yours.
Please take care and stay safe!
Morning Lance
@@Holygrail33gday Ric , you could bring a steam train in at speed and stop it right on the mark, 😂😂keep up the good driving, cheers mate from Australia
You actually saw me this time!!😂😊. Always got the flashlight wave in handy! And yay I got Ric!!
Are you still by the train?
@@Holygrail33I been in the lounge the whole time, I didn’t step off. Wanted to secure a seat for the front range. I did see you walking on the platform though 👍🏾
Oh ok. I came in the lounge. I was going to introduce myself. Safe travels.
How neat! Yes, I saw the flashlight as you came by. Have a great rest of your trip. Yoa hit the best place to ride thru the Rockies.
Enjoy! Please take care and stay safe! Hope that you got to meet Ric!
Beautiful purple sky with a little pink this morning against a mostly dark sky. This is by far my favorite time of day.
Picking up my 16 month old grand daughter Charlotte today, will spend the weekend with my sweetheart Ginny and me (married 50 years this past June)
For one of our field trips hope to take Charlotte to the Martinez, CA Amtrak station to watch arrival and departure of either the #5 train or the #6 train. We are so eager to see her!
Maybe I will show her today's Zephyr in Ft Morgan on the big screen TV
Thanks again Mike, this routine of coffee and the arrival of the Zephyr has become something of a morning ritual these past few months
T
Good morning, Ted; Thank you for stopping by as well as the comments. It will get darker for a while. I may catch the moon rise one of these days. I hope that have a wonderful day with your granddaughter. Just spoil the heck out of her. I also congratulate you and your spouse on your marriage. That is a blessing.
To take Charlotte to see the trains is so neat. Can't start train watchers too soon. The real thing beats a video any day.
Have a great Friday and weekend out there.
Please take care and stay safe!
Good morning Mike. Nice video this morning. Nice weather in Albuquerque this morning. Glad your doctor appointment went well. That was a long day for you. Take care and be safe.😊😊😊😊😊
Good morning, Gerald; Thanks for stopping by along with the comments. Other than the imported smoke, it should be a rather seasonable day here. Yep. I did sleep good last night after the road trip into what has become a driver's nightmare in Greeley. Nice to be back on the trike this morning with a bit slower pace.
I hope that you have a great day down there.
Please take care and stay safe!
Good morning Mike, Hope you have a good Friday. Thanks for the Zephyr.
Good morning, Ginny; I thank you for stopping by as well as the comments. I appreciate it
Have a great Friday back there.
Please take care and stay safe!
Another nice arrival ! Thanks Mike !
Good morning, Norman; I thank you for tuning in as well as the comments. I appreciate it.
Please take care and stay safe!
Good morning Mike. Another beautiful Zephyr day greeting us all. Glad your Greeley visit went well. Mine was a also good. Have a great day out there.
Good morning, David; Thank you for dropping by and the comments. Happy to read your follow-on was a good report.
Have a great Friday up there.
Please take care and stay safe!
Good morning, Mike. So dark that it looks like the middle of the night. Sorry to hear you're already affected by the California smoke. Be careful of the accompanying respiratory issues. Glad to read your trip went well. Now stay safe, be careful and breathe easy.
Good morning, Jim; Thanks for dropping by and the comments. Yep. It was on the dark side of sunrise today. Gonna have more of them for a while. This area collects the smoke from the west coast and from Canada's western provinces on a regular basis anymore. There may be denser smoke this afternoon. Can't smell it. Just see it. Health warning were posted along the front range but the winds will be moving the smoke around out here.
Have a great Friay back there.
Please take care and stay safe!
Hi Mike i am glad you had a good trip yesterday. thanks for the catch of #5 today. take care with the smoke .
Good morning, Ken; Thanks for dialing in and the comments. It was nice to go to Greeley and take care of not only health matters but get some shopping done too. The credit card didn't take too much of a hit. LOL!
Have a great day back there.
Please take care and stay safe!
Good morning. Not even a hint of a sunrise this morning, something I should get used to, I suppose, as fall and winter arrive. I hope you have a most enjoyable weekend.
Good afternoon, Paul; Thank you for tuning in along with the comments. It was on the dark side of sunrise this morning. Yep. Have many more coming at us.
Have a great weekend over there.
Please take care and stay safe!
Good Morning Mike have a great weekend.
Good morning, Kenny; Thanks for looking in as well as the comment. I appreciate it.
Please take care and stay safe back there.
Hi Mike-Cool to hear #5 tooting on the approach-please don't walk under any ladders&beware of black cats crossing your path today-Happy Fri.13th & thanks Mike 🐱
Good morning, Jeb; I thank you for dialing in as well as the comments. Does the broken mirror count?? 🤔🤣
Have a great Friday. BTW: Today is also "Bald is Beautiful Day". I'm not bald but that works better than "Bad Luck Day".
Have a great Friday.
Please take care and stay safe!
Good morning Mike from 71 cloudy mid Tenn. Storm remnants moving thru west Tenn and eastern Arkansas. Some rain and T/S still around. Boy some new Amtrak faces but still that familiar " allrighhtt," from the upfront cab(Ric). Bad news about all that California smoke, how long will it last ?
Good afternoon, Ben; Thaks for dialing in as well as the comments. Sounds as though you have not had to break out the water wings back there. Nor the canoe.
Yep. The faces change and I have to learn them again. Seems as though I no sooner do that and it's time to change again. Oh well. One cannot miss Ric in the cab. That signature radio call is or should be copyrighted.
With a wind that has picked up from the northwest, the smoke for the west will be here for at least a couple of days. I do hope they get some relief from fires out there. And elsewhere up the left coast.
Hope that you have a great afternoon and evening.
Please take care and stay safe!
Good morning. This year’s environmental gift is courtesy of Southern California; last time, I believe, it was from Canada. The Air Quality Index for Denver shows unhealthful for sensitive individuals. Nevertheless, have a great day.
Good morning, Robert; Thank you for dropping by and the comments. We tried to add some to the Air Quality sorrows with a fire that was burning along the I-76 corridor west of here. Bad enough the interstate was closed for several hours. This smoke infiltration has become an ongoing condition with the front range getting the worst of it today. Lots of haze here and the AQI went up a bit.
Anyway, have a great Friday.
Please take care and stay safe!
R R R Ric!!!! How goes it
Good afternoon, Dillan; Thanks for dialing in and the comment. I know that Ric looks in and reads the comments. Same guy. Works different days now.
Please take care and stay safe!
All is well, Dillan. How are you?
@Holygrail33 hey ric TH-cam didn't notify me you responded going good brother
Has there been a crew change the past week Mike? I noticed that all the familiar faces haven't been around. Be safe, take care.
Good morning, Paul; I thank you for tuning in and the question/comment. I noticed several new faces in the mix. The conductors are everchanging. I know by face but not by name many of them. The "old hands" are now the senior conductors busy with the paperwork in the dorm/transition/sleeper/office car.
With a couple of high visibility retirements this month, there will be more changes.
The more things are changing, the more they remain the same.
Have a great Friday.
Please take care and stay safe!
Who was the bald Amtrak guy?
Good morning, Rich; Thanks for stopping by as well as the question. That is one of the recent grads from conductor training. He has worked the route before but is still learning. OJT is a super way to learn. I am sure there will be more of it for him.
Take care and stay safe!