sweet home ?

[blacksheep]

Growing up in east Tenn.  I got to see some neat stuff. Coster shops, a steam engine in John Sevier roadhouse ( when most of it was still there) and I even remember 4 passenger trains a day though Knoxville. Now I live in Alabama and get to see the action down here. 2 Amtrak's a day, lots of sd40-2s  and geeps doing local work and some KCS run thoughs. A couple weeks ago I saw 2 frieghts with a total of 5 sd's, that sounded sweet. Yesterday is what I'm writeing about. I was over in Leeds and saw a east bound with 2 3500's leading a 2500. Someone once said in here that the 3500's were so ugly they were cute. These was the first one's I had seen in years. I was standing there thinking about the sight,, and the sound of the  sd when I noticed something else strange. This man had a whole train of empty gon's. When times are good it's hard to find a gon, I wonder where he got these and where they were going?

[BO4115]

Storage cars.  All the major RR's have them stored someplace or another with the economy like it is.

Paul Zuzich