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These are the remote controlled engines my dad used to fix for PBNE:

Not train specific, but here are some really cool photos of the "last cast" at Bethlehem Steel on the day that they should down all operations. 25 years ago yesterday. https://www.nmih.org/the-last-cast/?fbclid=IwAR1u6bqKfq1hn1FS5K0PNqWKME5UKddRt31Saf8L2JuIihniDRBd_u31mUE

After seeing the output from the last two days, I stand by this statement. Vista continues to be the weak link.

WJW

it is 28 degrees at my house right now so probably a degree or two cooler there.

I'm curious to see what the production looks like on Main Street. with guns on both sides I'd imagine there is fairly good production and whales that are present. Guns won't be on too much longer as temps are rising quickly.

They said ~80 hours of snowmaking to get open.

I’ll text barb green and let her know you’re free.

Keep us posted!

This is beautiful. Thanks for sharing! Hope to grind some spines there soon!

I can't imagine being a skier on this board who is stoked to get on snow and then declining to go skiing because it is only vista.

I'll never understand why they only have ~10 guns on homestretch. That is THE trail they need to get open before anything else and they usually have less production there than anywhere else with those crappy yellow guns. Line that trail on both sides and get that shit open with the vista lift asap.

Correct.

6,339 new cases for PA.

I think we have at least 2 weeks until we could be skis to snow at Blue. December 4th is my guess for earliest.

Coldest air of the season allows ski resorts to begin snowmaking By STEPHANIE SIGAFOOS THE MORNING CALL | NOV 18, 2020 AT 6:54 AM With temperatures at night dropping down into the 20s, snowmaking operations are now underway at area ski resorts. Blue Mountain Resort in Lower Towamensing Township turned on its snow guns around 9 p.m. Tuesday. “Our system can pump out 14,000 gallons of water a minute and convert it to snow,” mountain manager Bob Taylor told The Morning Call last week, with his team able to groom a trail per day once conditions are favorable. Live webcams at Blue Mountain showed heavy snow flying through the air Tuesday morning. Temperatures in the area were below freezing, with the humidity continuing to fall. The colder it is and the lower the humidity, the better quality of snow the machines will produce. Taylor said his team needs just 80 hours of snowmaking to be up and running as long as conditions remain favorable. The National Weather Service said Wednesday will be the coldest day of the season thus far. Temperatures will top out in the upper 30s and low 40s, with a steady breeze that will put wind chills markedly lower. "While it will not last long, the air mass over us today is quite anomalous in its chill,” the weather service said in its morning forecast discussion. Forecast lows tonight will be mainly in the low to mid 20s with some upper teens in the coldest spots. A few areas may come within 5 degrees or so of record lows. Ski resorts will have to get their snowmaking in while they can. The end of the week will feature a transition back to a warmer pattern. Thursday will see highs near normal, and by Friday, most areas will return to the low 60s for highs. As long as area resorts have some good cold nights, the snow will likely keep flying. “We will let the snow pile and not touch it,” Taylor said, noting that once you touch those piles it’s like cracking an egg. The snow freezes from the outside and is better left undisturbed until it needs to be moved. The webcams at Blue Mountain showed Vista and Main Street as two of the trails currently being coated in snow. Bear Creek Mountain Resort just outside Macungie does not have live webcams showing snowmaking yet. Last week, its team was looking ahead for a four- or five-day window of the right conditions to get started.

You’re welcome and anytime. I have better access since I live so close.

This gets me excited even though it will all melt this weekend.

Wow just wow

🚨🚨 Guns on! 🚨 🚨

Just be careful going out to these places if you are still going. Bars are definitely some pretty notorious hotspots.

carpooling with people you have been around and continue to be around is one thing, but random people? no thanks.

maybe not, still flurrying here and at the Truest.

it stopped.