You guys make me tear-up when you write from your
hearts...........
--- Joseph Jansen <jajansenjr@gmail.com> wrote:
> My great uncle Vincent Hiltz was a railroad
> engineer. He had his dog
> Boxer chained to a railroad spike in his yard, which
> was a good thing,
> as Boxer liked to lunge at visitors.
>
> When I was a little boy he took my tiny hands in his
> great big hands
> and helped me make the movements to learn how to tie
> my shoelaces.
>
> He took me out to the railyard one quiet day, lead
> me to his engine,
> hoisted me up into the cab, and let me sit in his
> seat with his
> engineer cap on. He had to hoist me up because my
> nose came right to
> the lowest rung in the steps to get into the cab.
> His engineer cap
> slipped over my ears at one point and the cap
> covered my eyes.
>
> I got to tour the caboose, too, and remember
> thinking what a cool club
> house it would be. :-)
>
> Joe Jansen
> JAJansenJr@gmail.com
>
> On 11/24/07, John LeBlanc <philmontjohn@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > And don't cheap out on cheap motels in Colovis,
> they are next to the
> > railroad tracks and you get to listen to the
> trains whistle by at all hours
> > of the night huh Calvin Gray?
> >
> >
> > But John, if you were a railroad buff, that sound
> would be just like
> > lullabyes! Not to mention Clovis has a nice model
> train museum in the old
> > depot, AND if you make advance reservations you
> may be able to tour the
> > Norman Petty Recording Studio. That's where Buddy
> Holly made all his great
> > records, and Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs
> recorded "Sugar Shack." (Sorry
> > if this is too far back in time for some of you
> list readers.) One of the
> > neat things about the Petty Studio is the 1950's
> furniture and fixtures.
> > It's well worth a visit. I just don't know if the
> scouts would appreciate
> > it, though.
> >
> > Take a virtual visit at
> >
>
http://www.superoldies.com/pettystudios/pettytour.html
> >
> > Steve Hanson, Austin TX
> > Counselor, Railroading Merit Badge
> > Chaplain, Thunderbird District
> > and a good ol' Owl, too.
> >
> > **************************
> >
> > But Steve, I am a railroad buff. My grandfather
> was a brakeman, head
> > brakeman in fact from the days there were two
> brakeman on each train, on the
> > KCS, one of only two railroads in the Us still
> operating under the original
> > name. My monther, still alive at 93, still has
> her lifetime pass to ride
> > KCS free and it was honored by all other lines she
> presented it to.
> >
> > As a kid growing up in the 50's, we rode the
> trains a lot simply because it
> > was cost effectife. Free is free,
> >
> > She now lives in a nice retirement apartment in
> Beaumont about two blocks
> > from the tracks from the west coming into town and
> gets to listen to the
> > whistles every few hours. It's music to her old
> ears, although the diesel
> > horns are not the same as the steam whistles were.
> >
> > But in clovis, with the East and west bound tracks
> paralleling each other,
> > enough is snough and after a long days drive, I
> choose the other side of
> > town and this is a jab at Calvin gray who
> mistakenly stayed on the track
> > side of town and listened to the trains all night
> long.
> >
> > One of the aspects of my job is supervising
> loading of about two hundred tan
> > cars and the shipping of same. I get to listen to
> a LOT of trains.
> >
> > Consider this, at my deer cqamp, the "pegs" on the
> bathroom walls that the
> > towels hang on AND the toilet paper rolls from are
> railroad spikes driven
> > into the appropriate size holes bored into the
> wall to hold the spike. And
> > if that ain't cool, I don't know what is.
> >
> > And I used to sing my olkdest daughter asleep
> singing the Wabash Canonball.
> > Worked every time and listening to my wife laugh
> at us from the next room
> > was worth the effort.
> >
> > It worked for me.
> >
> > John LeBlanc
> >
> > PS I still have my American Flyer model train,
> that's the one the had a two
> > rail track. I commented to my wife that I never
> had a Lionel trail as a
> > kid, so two years ago she gave me one for
> Christmas. When I finished my 30
> > X 30 metal workshop last year she came home only
> to find me adn my Lionell
> > sharing the then empty confines and enjoying life
> as any normal 61 year old
> > should.
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you
> with Yahoo Mobile. Try it
> > now.
>
>
>
>
>
>
-------------------------------------------------------
> Scouting E-mail Discussion Lists @ usscouts.org
> Listserv Commands at
> http://usscouts.org/lists/lc.asp
>
-------------------------------------------------------
> Send listserv commands to: listserv@troop47.com
> Send postings to: philmont@troop47.com
> List FAQ found at:
> http://usscouts.org/lists/faq.asp
> List Administrator:
> philmont_owner@troop47.com
>
-------------------------------------------------------
> To Unsubscribe send text email to:
>
> To: listserv@troop47.com
> Subject: unsubscribe
> Body: unsubscribe philmont@troop47.com
>
-------------------------------------------------------
>
> As you gather around this virtual campfire with
> fellow
> Scouts and Scouters, do your best to be trustworthy,
> loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient,
> cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.
>
-------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
-------------------------------------------------------
Scouting E-mail Discussion Lists @ usscouts.org
Listserv Commands at http://usscouts.org/lists/lc.asp
-------------------------------------------------------
Send listserv commands to: listserv@troop47.com
Send postings to: philmont@troop47.com
List FAQ found at: http://usscouts.org/lists/faq.asp
List Administrator: philmont_owner@troop47.com
-------------------------------------------------------
To Unsubscribe send text email to:
To: listserv@troop47.com
Subject: unsubscribe
Body: unsubscribe philmont@troop47.com
-------------------------------------------------------
As you gather around this virtual campfire with fellow
Scouts and Scouters, do your best to be trustworthy,
loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient,
cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.
-------------------------------------------------------
Received on Sun Nov 25 08:31:56 2007
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Thu Jul 24 2008 - 14:55:42 CDT