Thank You

To my fellow Veterans, I would just like to say Thank You for your Service.

 

Every Day is Veterans Day to me .... God Bless them all.

 

God bless all the Veterans today, and everyday. Thank you for your service to this country.

 

Thank you everyone. It was my honor to have served you. God bless my brothers in arms and y'all. Thank you for remembering me and us!

Manny

 

I appreciate the kind thoughts. I also appreciate my friends back in KC during my SE Asia "cruise" who kept me posted on FRISCO doin's. BTW...yesterday, at a veterans / active duty lunch I sat next to a guy who jumped into Normandy with the 101st AB. He was 90...fought in the Arnhem campaign and the Battle of the Bulge. He STILL had his "cricket" from D-Day.

Rancho Bob

oh, Capt. USAF Korat RTAFB.

 

Pleasure to have served. U.S. Navy, 1959-1962. Naval Air Facility, Naha Okinawa and VF-154 flying F-8 Crusaders aboard the U.S.S. Coral Sea, CVA-43

Tony LaLumia

 

Thank you fellow veterans for your service, all kinds, all jobs.

6 yrs USN. 1980-86. USS Holland AS-32 Charleston SC and Diego Garcia

Thank you all for supporting our folks currently serving.

 

Thank you to all the veterans on our humble website. The freedom that we enjoy is due to your effort and sacrifice. Didn't know we had so many. Would like for all the veterans to follow Don and Jim's lead and let us know your branch of service, unit, location, etc. It is very interesting to military historians like myself.

 

Ya shamed me into it - USN 1967 - 1973. Served chasing Russian subs in the Med on the USS Robert K. Huntington, DD-781, then on to Nuke schools and lastly on the USS Truxton, DLGN 35, for three trips off the coast across from Vinh, North Vietnam.

 

Are you the KC Bob Dye? Great information, thanks.

 

Rick, yes that is (was) me. I had to pack up everything to sell the house and everything is, and has been, in storage for the last couple of years. I have been slowly buying stuff for the new layout and will have one heck of a sale on a ton of unneeded stuff. I can't tell you how hard it has been, now being retired, and not being able to do any modeling. Mainly because we need to build a 2-car garage (most of it for daddy's play room) and do a house remodel. Although when done, I'll be doing a ton of building in a screened-in porch over looking the lake.

Now for a quick thread highjack. I want to thank everyone on this board for the willingness to share protoype information. After my abandonment of Colorado narrow guage, I was torn between the Frisco, MoPac and KCS. But in looking for a shortline to model, I ran across the Blair Line and the Highline as possibilities. The MoPac boards don't have a lot of online stuff and the KCS folks are real close to the vest, sooooo, I decided Frisco it was. My huge regret is even though I traveled between KC and Springfield, I wasn't able to do a lot of railfanning, much less photographing anything. Although I do have a number of photos and slides that were taken, I have no idea of where they are in the storage locker. Same with all the Frisco books that I bought over the years. So I have been planning and downloading a ton of stuff for my protolanced version of the Highline.

 

I too was stationed on Okinawa, US Navy 1968-1974, Communications Technician Maintenance PO2.

 

Thanks to all our veterans. I recently met a gentleman who flew with the Tuskeegee airmen. It was an honor and a privilege to speak with him.

STILL has his cricket! Wow!

Not to hijack the thread, but the F-8 has always been one of my favorite planes. I understand it wasn't the easiest plane to fly.

 

US Army Transportation Corps: 1964-1967 (With PRIDE!)

USATC School, Ft. Eustus, VA (Thanks USATC vets who made the Saturday morning steam ups during October 1964 great memories for me!)

49th Transportation Group, Germany

Joe Toth
The Trinity River Bottoms Boomer of Dallas, TX
Currently "Derailed in Deutschland"

RIP to all fallen men and women who fought for Freedom. We will never forget you!

How many military installations were served by the Frisco and still are by BNSF on former Frisco Lines?

 

US Army, Field Artillery 1954-1957, Combat Engineers 1957-1958 plus my Reserve obligation till 1963. Fort Riley, Kansas on the old Kansas Pacific, then Aschaffenbueg, Germany for two years and Kitzingen for 6 months. Lot of steam and electric locomotives and lady engineers. (The war had killed a lot of their men) Good train watching.
Thanks to all of you, there may be service rivalries but we would all jump in and help each other without a second thought.

 

I just turned 66 on the 4th of July and despite the growing old ailments starting to pay me a visit, I would still grab a gun and answer a recall of duty if circimstances required me to do so to preserve Freedom! I met a bunch of great guys who were stationed here in Ansbach (about an hours drive south of Kitzingen) who were in the 28th Field Artillery.

Sounds like we all Served America with Pride! Right on!

Joe Toth