Speak for yoursleves and the pile of crap which you lay.... my pile is small but present

 

Is this a Midwestern thing? Because I don't get it.

 

I dont know.... I was just playing along...

 

must be an Ohio valley thing... cause I'm from St.L and I don't get it either LOL

 

OK. I thought I was losing it for a minute there.

 

I don't either. But then again, I don't get a lot of things.

 

I will say that the new Lucas Indy stadium looks good on TV! And they even made the neighboring roof's look good from the air too!
A lot of those old midwestern cities are new building, old building, projects, new building, etc...

 

I heard they're building the new outdoor Twin's stadium right next to some sort of garbage burner. Metrodome FTW!

 

St. Louis huh. I'm still living in the little town I was born in. I doubt I'll ever get to leave.


The Cascades looks like a wonderful place, other than the snow. I've been looking for a vacation spot for this year or next year for the family. We try to go to a different area of the country every other year or so on vacation. We drive. So far we've been to San Francisco/Vegas, D.C./Williamsburg, Orlando, Phoenix/Grand Canyon, and then back to Orlando this year. The San Fran trip was with in-laws, the rest was the wife and kids and I. I'd like to go to Rushmore and see the great plains, but the Crater Lake looks incredibly interesting to me where you are. I'd love to go there sometime. That and Alaska. I've really got to get to Alaska.

 

I've been to Mt. Rushmore 5 times. Definitely a cool place to go.

 

Lucas Oil Stadium is amazing...... really is. We went to watch the Colts play the Jets this year.

 

My dad (more like a grandpa's age) instilled love of outdoors in me and vaca's just wasn't enough - had to move to the mountains. I scouted CO, WY, MT, ID, WA, and OR Cascades offered the best combo of small town, mountains, clean air/water, reasonable winters (08's 4' was unusual), ocean within 4 hrs, big cities within 5-6. Course the challenge is small town/well paying careers are not plentiful.
I've always wanted to do Alaska via taking the ferry to Anch and then driving up into Denali. Or the train thru the Park to FB. Don't know if that will happen...

My connection with Texas is via the Katy where my great uncle worked the line along the Missouri River Bluffs. Get this - they paid him to be a track walker. LOL He'd walk & hand car his section and if there was a rock slide he'd telegraph it in. Talk about technology of the day! LOL
Oh, and of course, how 'bout them Cowboys!

 

My neighbor is working as a truck driver right now and had to drive all the way to Alaska. Said he'd never do it again.

 

My grandfather worked for Southern Pacific. He started here during the depression cleaning out cars and worked for SP until he retired. He always said he was lucky to have a job then. He would always feed the hobos that rode the rails on the tracks out in front of his house. Evidently my dad said that the hobos would mark a house as a friendly place so others would know it was OK to stop there. My grandfather worked his *** off cleaning out those rail cars. He was retired before I was even born.

 

Yeah I got RR's on both sides. My Mom's side was Katy & MoPac, and my Dad's side was a Cotton Belt engineer back in the day of steam. Course Cotton Belt was St. Louis Southwestern... another Texas connection. He drove the "Blue Streak" passenger line and they were hell on punctuality! Grandpa would tell stories of crankin' the boiler to make up time and taking a few curves on the edge... LOL



1918

 

Good old Cotton Belt. I remember those running. Cotton Belt. Santa Fe. Southern Pacific. Now everything here is Union Pacific but the engines running are Kansas City Southern or TFM (Federal Mexico)

 

Yeah up here its all BurlingtonNorthern/SantaFe BNSF & SP now... my dad is spinning in his grave over all the mergers... and a few local lines the lumber mills try and keep going.

 

We do a lot of business with KCS and BNSF....

 

hmmm... I remember following that KCS, Stillwell, Janus thing for a long time.

How do they (KCS) do as a railroad?

 

We sell boots to them. That's about all I know. lol