Halloween is coming....

[Mookie]

Saw two things this last weekend that caused me to think we are really getting close to Halloween -

An mt coal train with the helper running backward at the end and the windshield wipers all running like mad! Spooky!

And - an engine with two small pumpkins pasted to the windshield up high. X-d freight going out of town and this engineer deliberately opened his window and waved! How fun!

Mookie [}:)]

[zardoz]

Soon the little rug-rats will be putting the pumpkins on the rails to watch the train explode them, and send pumpkin guts flying everywhere.

[Junctionfan]

When the darkness is just right,
the forum will have one great fright

As you will scream, the dark ones howl
the moderators may laugh and scowl


When it's time, I'll release the good stuff.
[}:)]

[bnsfkline]

Mookie, you dressing Mookie up like Chessie this Halloween

[Mookie]

No - I am going to dress her as a fraidy cat and watch a 17 pound cat try to get under the bed to hide! She loves Halloween, 4th of July and guests in general - as you can tell!

[athelney]

How did you come up with the the name of Mookie for your cat ? Is it an off shoot of the english slang word for cats -- moggie ???

[espeefoamer]

To get in the halloween "spirit" UP will threaten to buy another railroad.They are going to announce which one on Oct.31. BOO!

[Junctionfan]

A CP subsidiary at Halloween would be the BOO Line wouldn't it?

[Anonymous]

It's always Halloween on the Bessemer & Lake Erie

[Overmod]

Milwaukee, too... of course, I went to a college where it was Halloween all year, so am partial to this sort of thing.

What about the Eerie, or the Seaboard Scare Line?

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by athelney

How did you come up with the the name of Mookie for your cat ? Is it an off shoot of the english slang word for cats -- moggie ???

Her real name is Abigail Ann and she must not like it - she won't come to it. But she came to "Mookie" - so....

Go with the flow, I guess.

Pseudo-Mookie

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by radivil

It's always Halloween on the Bessemer & Lake Erie

Same with the old Alcos on the Cartier Railway.

[Junctionfan]

I have a scary poem or literature....whatever

In the dark, dark woods there was a dark, dark house and in the dark, dark house there was a dark, dark room and in the dark, dark room there was a dark, dark closet and in the dark, dark closet there was trainfinder22. AHHHHH!

[Mookie]

Ok - I give in - you made the Mookie laugh!

[Anonymous]

Ya just seeing those Yellow UP Locomotives go by my house is scarry enough.
And also...........
You know what is realy scarry...............................POLITICS, this time of the YEAR,Now that's SCARRY![}:)].

[Junctionfan]

Bush should dress up as Kerry and Kerry should dress up as Bush. How funny would that be?

[Anonymous]

Now that I have to agree with you on that one junctionfan. That would be to very funny.

[espeefoamer]

I have been watching the BNSF and have seen quite a few PUMPKINS in the past few days[;)]!

[JoeKoh]

Saw 2 pumpkins lighting up the dark of night going to chicago on ns rails(former nyc).
stay safe
Joe

[BNSFNUT]

I am going to paint myself in about 10 colors and go to a Holloween party an an NYSW locomotive. With the number of odd locos they are useing any 10 colors will do.

[Junctionfan]

I'm going as the Witch King of Angmar. Next year Sauron.

I am convincing my parents to be Lucifer and Lilith for a party.

[Junctionfan]

Is anybody going to present any Halloween themed poems or literature here?

[JoeKoh]

andrew
i think i could scare something up!
stay safe
Joe

[Anonymous]

Last Halowe'en I put a 200 Watt bulb in my pumpkin -

2 hours later the Pumpkin was on fire-
2.1 hours later the pumpkin was reduced to a pile of carbon remains
2.15 hours later the Fire Dept shows up, all 4 engines, and the entire volunteer Fire Dept-

this year, I think i'm going to go 150 Max.

Hey you could see my pumpkin from 8 streets away, and when it was on fire, you could see it from space i'm sure!

[Junctionfan]

How dark, evil and scary do you want me to be? I've got some pretty diabolical stuff if you all are seriously interested.

[Overmod]

To kick off the poetry -- this, perhaps, which fans of Chuy's might find familiar:


They roll up the sidewalks, or what passes for them
About 6 o’clock in this part of the world.
The little pieces of everyday life
that fight against this heroic sky
sputter and fade as the doors are locked.

Light walks up the mountains
Their slopes are washed in the brilliant colors that seem so false
When you see pictures of them, flipping through,
On the pages of Arizona Highways.
Now you are there, and know.

The highway slams above the town
in horizontal strokes of people rushing through --
In parallel, distracted time the old main street
Dissolves in a wash of dust: an old dog limping,
An old truck limping, two old men stopped,
Wrapped in a blanket, waiting for time itself to stop
(Which it is too tired to do) -- while up above
the heavens open and the signs appear
for yet another perfect time:
blues and oranges in a Renaissance sunset
to match the angels in the art-store window.

The wind speaks, the animals talk,
The opening blue hollows of the comforting night
Replace the dead air of the day with crystal ring,
And the dust with the tang of smoke. In dreams
we have this sureness, in dreams this sense of place.
This country opens, opens out, and all the little things
Men tacked so temporarily here are taken up.

The wheel of seasons, the wheel of stars
Turn overhead; this fall October ends in flame
around the tiny humps and scratches here below

And we forget, eyes filled with light,
Until the morning washes darkness back again.

[Anonymous]

I don't know just reading your forum is scarry enough[}:)][:D]!

[Junctionfan]

I'll bring forth a frightening little poem I wrote in school called Down into the Underworld.

[espeefoamer]

I saw a pumpkin turn into a ghost
And that is the thing that scares me the most.

Dont applaud,just throw money[;)].

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by espeefoamer

I saw a pumpkin turn into a ghost
And that is the thing that scares me the most.

Dont applaud,just throw money[;)].

one, uh two- ooo three cents.. here y'are