[EXT] Re: [RealSTMFC] Reading Yard - Philadelphia, PA
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No. Americans don't write dates that way. It is month, day, year. So February it is. Not to mention it is obviously COLD, due to the ice on several cars.
I will also note, as others have done, that Philly does not have snow on the ground all winter.
Regards,
Bruce Smith
Auburn, AL
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Jim and Barbara van Gaasbeek <jvgbvg@...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 5:31 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Subject: [EXT] Re: [RealSTMFC] Reading Yard - Philadelphia, PA
Considering the lack of snow anywhere in the picture, could it be September 2?
Jim van Gaasbeek Irvine, CA
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Schuyler Larrabee
Bruce Smith writes:
Philly does not have snow on the ground all winter
Oh yes it does. Maybe not ALL winter but I have a photo taken by Larry DeYoung of a SD45 flying through the Devon PA station at speed, with the plow about to cover the platform . . . and Larry. There was about 12” on the ground. He used the photo as a Christmas card with the story on the back.
Schuyler
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Bruce Smith
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 8:48 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [RealSTMFC] Reading Yard - Philadelphia, PA
No. Americans don't write dates that way. It is month, day, year. So February it is. Not to mention it is obviously COLD, due to the ice on several cars.
I will also note, as others have done, that Philly does not have snow on the ground all winter.
Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Jim and Barbara van Gaasbeek <jvgbvg@...>
Considering the lack of snow anywhere in the picture, could it be September 2?
Jim van Gaasbeek Irvine, CA
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Schuyler,
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You seem to have misinterpreted my comment. What it meant was that the ground in Philly is not continuously covered by snow, not that Philly doesn't ever have snow. Having spent a good portion of my academic career in the Philly area, I am well aware of the
occurence of snow and also the impermanence of that snow from week to week.
Regards,
Bruce From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Schuyler Larrabee via groups.io <schuyler.larrabee@...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 7:54 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [RealSTMFC] Reading Yard - Philadelphia, PA Bruce Smith writes:
Philly does not have snow on the ground all winter
Oh yes it does. Maybe not ALL winter but I have a photo taken by Larry DeYoung of a SD45 flying through the Devon PA station at speed, with the plow about to cover the platform . . . and Larry. There was about 12” on the ground. He used the photo as a Christmas card with the story on the back.
Schuyler
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of
Bruce Smith
No. Americans don't write dates that way. It is month, day, year. So February it is. Not to mention it is obviously COLD, due to the ice on several cars.
I will also note, as others have done, that Philly does not have snow on the ground all winter.
Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL
From:
main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Jim and Barbara van Gaasbeek <jvgbvg@...>
Considering the lack of snow anywhere in the picture, could it be September 2?
Jim van Gaasbeek Irvine, CA
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Schuyler Larrabee
Your sentence, as I quoted, implies that there is NO snow ALL winter. Not the case.
Schuyler
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Bruce Smith
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 9:13 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [RealSTMFC] Reading Yard - Philadelphia, PA
Schuyler, ' You seem to have misinterpreted my comment. What it meant was that the ground in Philly is not continuously covered by snow, not that Philly doesn't ever have snow. Having spent a good portion of my academic career in the Philly area, I am well aware of the occurence of snow and also the impermanence of that snow from week to week.
Regards,
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Schuyler Larrabee via groups.io <schuyler.larrabee@...>
Bruce Smith writes:
Philly does not have snow on the ground all winter
Oh yes it does. Maybe not ALL winter but I have a photo taken by Larry DeYoung of a SD45 flying through the Devon PA station at speed, with the plow about to cover the platform . . . and Larry. There was about 12” on the ground. He used the photo as a Christmas card with the story on the back.
Schuyler
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Bruce Smith
No. Americans don't write dates that way. It is month, day, year. So February it is. Not to mention it is obviously COLD, due to the ice on several cars.
I will also note, as others have done, that Philly does not have snow on the ground all winter.
Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Jim and Barbara van Gaasbeek <jvgbvg@...>
Considering the lack of snow anywhere in the picture, could it be September 2?
Jim van Gaasbeek Irvine, CA
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Ralph W. Brown
Schuyler, Bruce, et al.,
I knew exactly what Bruce meant, and I’d have said it the same way.
I’ve lived in Portland, Maine, for about forty-five years, and don’t recall
a Winter with continuous snow cover. Same goes for the four years I lived
in Juneau, Alaska. Northern Maine and the mountains to the west and into
New Hampshire, however, are another matter entirely. By way of examples,
the first of the attached photos was taken a day or two after the February 2017
blizzard, and the second was taken during the March 2017 blizzard.
February’s snow was completely gone before the mid-March event began.
Pax,
Ralph
Brown
Portland, Maine PRRT&HS No. 3966 NMRA No. L2532 rbrown51[at]maine[dot]rr[dot]com From: Schuyler Larrabee via
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Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 9:15 PM
To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io
Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [RealSTMFC] Reading Yard - Philadelphia,
PA Your sentence, as I quoted, implies that there is NO snow ALL winter. Not the case.
Schuyler
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<main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Bruce Smith
Schuyler, ' You seem to have misinterpreted my comment. What it meant was that the ground in Philly is not continuously covered by snow, not that Philly doesn't ever have snow. Having spent a good portion of my academic career in the Philly area, I am well aware of the occurence of snow and also the impermanence of that snow from week to week.
Regards,
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io
<main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Schuyler Larrabee via
groups.io <schuyler.larrabee@...>
Bruce Smith writes:
Philly does not have snow on the ground all winter
Oh yes it does. Maybe not ALL winter but I have a photo taken by Larry DeYoung of a SD45 flying through the Devon PA station at speed, with the plow about to cover the platform . . . and Larry. There was about 12” on the ground. He used the photo as a Christmas card with the story on the back.
Schuyler
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io
<main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Bruce
Smith
No. Americans don't write dates that way. It is month, day, year. So February it is. Not to mention it is obviously COLD, due to the ice on several cars.
I will also note, as others have done, that Philly does not have snow on the ground all winter.
Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io
<main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Jim and Barbara van
Gaasbeek <jvgbvg@...>
Considering the lack of snow anywhere in the picture, could it be September 2?
Jim van Gaasbeek Irvine, CA
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Paul R Greenwald
I agree with Ralph. Having lived in SE Pennsylvania for 63 of my 76 years, we get snow, it melts. Snow coverage is intermittent, which is hiw I read what Bruce said. It may have snowed a week before the photo was taken, and it melted.
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ed_mines
I lived in Rochester, NY for much of the '70s. |
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Dave Parker
On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 03:30 PM, ed_mines wrote:
I lived in Rochester, NY for much of the '70s.Interesting, except that on average Rochester (and Buffalo) gets over four times the annual snowfall that Philadelphia does: https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/snowfall-totals-city/ Might I suggest that we try and get back to freight cars? -- Dave Parker Swall Meadows, CA |
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