Midnight, the best part of the day...?

[284driver]

half an hour to midnight here.

Mamma is sacked out, we live in a quiet neighborhood, and there are no cars. We are about about half a mile from railroad tracks, and there are a couple fast freights heading West about now. There's something about that off in the distance lonesome whistle announcing its passage. That odd shuffling driver sound.

It is a good day coming, to be alive.

You all have a good day...

Rich

Funny you mentioned fast freights. That's actually the term we use on the railroad for freight trains here in the east, or at least the region I work. I'm that guy that wakes people up in the middle of the night with that distant lonesome whistle.

 

[Intheshop]

284,my Gfather was a lifer for the RR.He started out on a small line...I think it was the,"Blue Ridge line"....but don't quote that.Got bought up by "Southern"?Anyway,he....along with a LOT of RR workers went down to Danville to help clean up the "wreck"......ole 97.He brought back a small section of the track.It's still sitting under a now,bigarse Oak on the old homeplace....looks like any other pce of track?so it ain't like anyone would believe it.

 

[jr600yd]

Done my share of hunting animals both two legged and four now I shoot paper and remember when. Made a new friend this year. Little button buck eats out in the back yard and watches me as I drink my coffee. Yup, I remember.

 

[370bc]

I live 7 miles from the nearest street light.
2 miles from I75.
3 miles from I 10.
5 miles from the railroad.
The man that built my house built it tight as a cave.
I don't hear anything unless I go outside and listen hard. Partly deaf helps(I don't hear anything I don't want to).
I'm 82 today.
My Nana Newland is looking down still saying "That boy ain't never gonna live to 21".
God bless all my gone on relatives.
I'm finishing my 4 am coffee and looking for the paper--Cross Word Puzzle.
Happy Wed. all.
LT

Happy Birthday Young man!!

 

[hoz53]

half an hour to midnight here.

Mamma is sacked out, we live in a quiet neighborhood, and there are no cars. We are about about half a mile from railroad tracks, and there are a couple fast freights heading West about now. There's something about that off in the distance lonesome whistle announcing its passage. That odd shuffling driver sound.

It is a good day coming, to be alive.

You all have a good day...

Rich

when i lived in a small rural town in ND a few years ago when the trains came through and blew their whistles at crossings at nite the coyotes would howl.

 

[284driver]

when i lived in a small rural town in ND a few years ago when the trains came through and blew their whistles at crossings at nite the coyotes would howl.

I've seen them go nuts right beside the tracks as I went by and tapped the horn. Crazy

 

[284driver]

when i lived in a small rural town in ND a few years ago when the trains came through and blew their whistles at crossings at nite the coyotes would howl.

On a side note, I've run over virtually everything living on the Eastern side of the country but have yet to hit a coyote. Pedestrians are more common that ol' canis latrans

 

[snert]

Hemingway said and I am paraphrasing it...

"The man who hunts armed men long enough care to hunt only armed men"

I hunted four legged animals until I was old enough to hunt 2 legged animals. I spent 22 years directly hunting both armed and unarmed criminals and enjoyed it. During that time I exceedingly rarely hunted 4 legged animals but would take a coyote or two now and then.

Allen

I get it. For me, if I wanted to fish, I turned on the radar...it was like ice fishing. If I wanted to troll for a bite, I looked for bad registrations and speeders. If I wanted to hunt rabbits, I served warrants, if I wanted to hunt deer, I set up a hidey hole and watched for a trophy felon, and if I wanted a safari, I waited till someone landed face first outside the bar at 2 am, then waded into the fray....

 

[brokeasajoke]

3rd shift for me the last couple years. I miss 3pm-11pm shift. I don' seem to have much drive anymore though I do see my kids more. O yeah I said 3rds not that bad (well when I was 21 I wasn' at least). Rarely hear the old trains around here. CSX dosent haul much coal anymore. The rail yard a cross the state line in Erwin TN got shut down as well as the two smaller ones around here. Miss hearing that high pitched steel screech.

 

[killahog]

On a side note, I've run over virtually everything living on the Eastern side of the country but have yet to hit a coyote. Pedestrians are more common that ol' canis latrans

284 I have noticed the same thing, in the last 20 years I have hit 3 coyotes but the Pedestrians are unfortunatualy more common.

 

[284driver]

284 I have noticed the same thing, in the last 20 years I have hit 3 coyotes but the Pedestrians are unfortunatualy more common.

Yep it's tragic. You work for ns?

 

[Just Say Moe]

Yes, I am a 4:30 AM guy...

I wake up at 4:30 AM to go to the bathroom and then back to bed.

You and me both!!