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<center>[img]http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/CaptCarrales/twotreestimes.jpg[/img]</center> <center>Hurricane Rita Comes and Goes N&MRR President Scorned for Actions By Richard "Scoop" Carails- Two Trees Times</center> <center>[img]http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/CaptCarrales/thecut.jpg[/img] N&MRR track crews applying ballast and preparing the line in the cut</center> Two Trees, Texas- N&MRR track crews headed out to the Cut Wednesday and Thursday to make prepartations for the proposed onslaught of Hurricane Rita which for a while had registered as the 3rd most powerful storm in the recorded history of the Texas Gulf Coast. In all Locomotive #12, the City of Two Trees, made six trips from Two Trees, Texas to the Cut with ballast and train crews. "We were expecting extremely destructive forces," said N&MRR President Carrales, "thus we took steps to prepare the line for high waters and slides." Two recently acquired ballast cars from the Sow's Ear Locomotive and Car Works took a great amount of ballast that had been ear marked for Poor Vic's Curve. This action has drawn critial remarks from Carrales' detractors. "Yet another outrageous show of stupidity by Capt Carrales," fumed Sampson Betts of the prestigous Two Trees' Betts family, "this action has been way out of line. Using materials earmarked for the repairs and upgrade of the curve is mismanagement plain and simple." But not everyone is so hostile to Carrales actions. Victor Creer Betts, of the lesser prestigous Two Trees' Betts family had this to say... "The quick repairs to the Cut will insure that that area will be a viable section of the line for years to come. The track had been shifting a bit but now is quite solid." Carrales and Treasurer E.N Velopes announced that construction on Poor Vic's Curve would go ahead as planned.
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