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Re: Missed opportunities: trips you wished you'd made
Author: WAF
Date: 02-08-2011 - 07:28
L.A.Scrafford Wrote:
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> Well luckily I grew up around the Milwaukee in
> North Idaho, Little Joes, Freight Motors and all.
>
> The 2 great missed opportunities for me are:
>
> 1. It's the 1960's and I am attending the U of I
> and my good buddy has a girl friend from
> Skykomish, Washington. Of course she has a cute
> girlfriend who I have dated a few times. One
> Friday afternoon we head off to Skykomish for a
> nice weekend. Well, it turns out the girlfriend
> has a neighbor who is a fireman for the Great
> Northern Railroad out of Skykomish. We get to
> talking and he tells me that he is about to go to
> work; as they have a help in about an hour or so
> over Stevens Pass. He tells me that I can probably
> go if I'd like. I tell him, hell yes. But about
> that time, my girl friend reminds me that I had
> promised to take her to a dance in Monroe.
> Of course being 20 years old and full of hormones,
> its off to the dance.... The only consolation is
> that I did go over to the yard at Sky and checkout
> the helper before we left for Monroe.
>
> 2. A friend of my dad's was a conductor on the NP
> out of Wallace and he promised my father and I a
> trip over Lookout Pass on the Wallace local. The
> problem is that the train schedule and my father'w
> work schedule never worked out. Unfortunately I
> never got over Lookout on the NP.
> I did take the UP passenger train every Saturday
> from Kellogg to Wallace to visit my grandfather in
> Wallace for a lot of years, until his death in
> 1955. That and a few trips to Spokane on the same
> passenger train has to stand in for second best.
>
> L.A.Scrafford
Hopefully she "rewarded" you after the dance :-)
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> Well luckily I grew up around the Milwaukee in
> North Idaho, Little Joes, Freight Motors and all.
>
> The 2 great missed opportunities for me are:
>
> 1. It's the 1960's and I am attending the U of I
> and my good buddy has a girl friend from
> Skykomish, Washington. Of course she has a cute
> girlfriend who I have dated a few times. One
> Friday afternoon we head off to Skykomish for a
> nice weekend. Well, it turns out the girlfriend
> has a neighbor who is a fireman for the Great
> Northern Railroad out of Skykomish. We get to
> talking and he tells me that he is about to go to
> work; as they have a help in about an hour or so
> over Stevens Pass. He tells me that I can probably
> go if I'd like. I tell him, hell yes. But about
> that time, my girl friend reminds me that I had
> promised to take her to a dance in Monroe.
> Of course being 20 years old and full of hormones,
> its off to the dance.... The only consolation is
> that I did go over to the yard at Sky and checkout
> the helper before we left for Monroe.
>
> 2. A friend of my dad's was a conductor on the NP
> out of Wallace and he promised my father and I a
> trip over Lookout Pass on the Wallace local. The
> problem is that the train schedule and my father'w
> work schedule never worked out. Unfortunately I
> never got over Lookout on the NP.
> I did take the UP passenger train every Saturday
> from Kellogg to Wallace to visit my grandfather in
> Wallace for a lot of years, until his death in
> 1955. That and a few trips to Spokane on the same
> passenger train has to stand in for second best.
>
> L.A.Scrafford
Hopefully she "rewarded" you after the dance :-)
