Just hello

[Modelcar]

Don't recogonize anything on here.....Away too long....qm

 Hello again.......Still looking how to get around in here.  But it's getting warm out today, and I must fill my roller with water and get my lawn rolled, maybe yet today.....And then it will be about ready to mow.  Thanks to everyone for saying hello....Q

 

[BaltACD]

Modelcar

Don't recogonize anything on here.....Away too long....qm

same old same old

[Deggesty]

Quentin, it is good to see you back.

[mudchicken]

Still around - welcome back.

[Mookie]

Still following Der Chicken around....

[samfp1943]

Deggesty

Quentin, it is good to see you back.

 

 

                                  ABSOLUTELY!

                            Hope your health  and family are well. 

  Missed hearing from and about you and what's happening there in Indiana.

[Firelock76]

Welcome back !  Come on in, the water's still fine!

[tree68]

Nice to see you back!

[Murphy Siding]

Hey Quentin! How are you getting along?

[rrnut282]

Are things quieter in Muncie, now that they have enacted the horn-free zone?

I know train watching is more difficult since they closed some of those crossings. 

[Convicted One]

Quentin, Glad to see you are still around.

 

Muncie question: That large, vacant industrial building out on West Kilgore ave. what outfit was in that building, originally? 5500 block or so.

[Paul_D_North_Jr]

Hi, Quentin - glad to see you're back ! 

As far as recognizing anything here - well, I believe K.P. Harrier's Cajon Pass and Sunset Route threads were underway the last time you were here - and they're still going strong !  Might take you about a week to catch up on each of them, though . . . 

- PDN.

[Boyd]

I'm still on my quest to photograph a live Jackalope. Might get a Bigfoot picture before that ever happens.

[CShaveRR]

tree68

Nice to see you back!

Nice to see you front, too!  Welcome home!

[tdmidget]

Good bye

[Modelcar]

Hello Larry...and our friend Carl...I believe Carl & Pat are in transit on Amtrak...however they may have already arrived back in their home area...Last I saw word from Carl, they were running late eastbound...

[rrnut282]

Convicted One

Quentin, Glad to see you are still around.

 

Muncie question: That large, vacant industrial building out on West Kilgore ave. what outfit was in that building, originally? 5500 block or so.

 

I think that is the former Borg-Warner gear factory.  MC may or may not have worked there. 

[samfp1943]

Boyd

I'm still on my quest to photograph a live Jackalope. Might get a Bigfoot picture before that ever happens.

 

             On a side note,Boyd, to your quest for the fabled Jackalope...There was a restaurant in Memphis [was Baretta's@ Park and Highland] had a number of Jackalopes that were stuffed, and mounted around the upper cornice in their eatery...I recall their story was, they 'shot' them while on vacations in Colorado and New Mexico. Must have had about 30 or 40 in their restaurant...  Maybe, Mudchicken can tell you a location where they roam in that area...He's probably seen many, as he goes about the countryside on his rounds.

[mudchicken]

Sam: If you folks would quit burning them out of their natural habitat, they'd still be around your part of the prairie. Ever been to the Buckhorn Exchange in Denver?  - They have a few in residence, on the red felt walls. Assume Baretta's closed after the Jackelopes started shooting back (they do that)...

 

ps- Solved the crisis on the Coffeyville Belt only to get hit with a new one at Pittsburg. (think the McDonald's at Broadway & Quincy...My old employer did it again!)

[samfp1943]

mudchicken

Sam: If you folks would quit burning them out of their natural habitat, they'd still be around your part of the prairie. Ever been to the Buckhorn Exchange in Denver?  - They have a few in residence, on the red felt walls. Assume Baretta's closed after the Jackelopes started shooting back (they do that)...

 

ps- Solved the crisis on the Coffeyville Belt only to get hit with a new one at Pittsburg. (think the McDonald's at Broadway & Quincy...My old employer did it again!)

 

    Those Jackalopes!  You have to be really careful,when hunting 'em.   Horny little buggars!        Need to approach with caution, and be armed...Never know when they will turn, and attack! Or one could wind up on the horns of a delimma.

Understand about the Mickey D's in Pittsburg, they were my lunch stop when I was a student at Pitt S. My bride and I got a chance to ride that line from Pittsburg to Cherokee some years back... Train was pulled by SP #745, and our train was the Passenger Equip( unpowered RDC's, furnished by Heart of the Heartlands RR Club& Museum). SP#745 took us to Cherokee, and WATCO #10 pulled us back to Pittsburg.  ( That was done as part of LASTA's 2004 KC Trip frorm La.)

    In fact, we are planning to ride the WATCO excursion this coming Apr 22,'17 on Former MP trackage. [Won't be fast, but the' grands' will have a ball ! ] Power?  No idea, but it will probably be one of WATCO's 'Hornets'

 

[Boyd]

A person could start a business with a van and call it Jackalope tours. Drive around in western states in search of this elusive animal. Just make sure the contract specifies that there is no guarantee of seeing a Jackalope. 

[tree68]

Boyd

Just make sure the contract specifies that there is no guarantee of seeing a Jackalope. 

One of the more common questions we get on our trains is whether the passengers will see a moose.  

While possible, the chances are probably pretty much zero.

One of these days, I'm going to get one of those plywood sillouette mooses and put it out in the woods, well back from the tracks....