FRISCO4503
04-16-2009, 02:10 AM
When I was working for the Kansas Eastern Division of Watco which was on the old FRISCO from Neodesha to Fredonia. I remember one day it was cold, snow had fallen but we had to switch the grain elevators in Fredonia as well as the ADM corn syrup tanks.We went out to build our train and departed for Fredonia rather early. Bruce was the engineer,I was the Conductor, and JV was just sort of a switchman. On that particular train we were told to take a short drag of Flat cars over to Fredonia for the Evening Haulage train to take back to Winfield. So we hooked em up air tested em, poked a lil red flag in the rear coupler and down the hill we went. SOmewhere during the time it took me to trudge through the snow up to the headend so we could depart, A herd of deer decided to take refuge from the local hunters in the area and so they hopped aboard the flat cars. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it myself but JV came over the radio and told us that we had an unauthorized hazardous shipment that wasn't supposed to bein the train. This scared the bajesus outta me because I thought I was in trouble for not making up the train right. Well, JV finally told me to look back at my train in the next curve and low and behold. We had a carload of Prescious venisin on board. Here we were traveling at 10 miles an hour hauling an unsecured load alright. Those deer were just all non-shalontly taking the train. I guess they figured "hey, the hunters can shoot us but this thing dont stop till the next town, so dead or not, we still got away. |-|:)|-|:)|-|