tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1709698839135404853.post5884320768386761985..comments2023-02-27T08:39:57.803-06:00Comments on Heavener blogs: The KCS and Heavener (Part 3)Craig Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11265567466052776075noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1709698839135404853.post-68715043400490114082008-12-22T16:46:00.000-06:002008-12-22T16:46:00.000-06:00Glen, I am enjoying reading your blogs about the K...Glen, I am enjoying reading your blogs about the KCS. Being the son of a locomotive engineer, I have some very fond memories of all the trains. I always wanted to be an engineer myself, but that hasn't happened...yet. I remember hearing the whistles and switching of cars in the yard, but like everyone else, tuned it out for the most part. I think I only put a penny on the track once--it came out Budhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17546742042402734663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1709698839135404853.post-33305211311110163502008-12-22T10:52:00.000-06:002008-12-22T10:52:00.000-06:00Glen, here in Tyler, we live just a block from som...Glen, here in Tyler, we live just a block from some rairoad tracks and the sounds of freight trains going by are just like the sound in Heavener when I lived just a block from the track. And, yes, I tried putting a penny on the track, in Heavener, not here. Memories, lots of 'em, what would we do without them? I assume the sound of the whistle has the same meaning now as it always did. Thanks Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1709698839135404853.post-32226641156997349792008-12-21T23:43:00.000-06:002008-12-21T23:43:00.000-06:00Like Bill, I never thought about those whistles ha...Like Bill, I never thought about those whistles having any meaning. I just figured each Engineer was showing his 'personality' by pulling the cord (or whatever the control was) in a way to make the different sounds. It makes me yearn to hear those sounds again...and the smells. It's funny, but just reading your descriptions actually brought back some of those odors (in my mind). <BR/><BR/>I'mChuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07989033775725464917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1709698839135404853.post-49818838889540605282008-12-21T18:30:00.000-06:002008-12-21T18:30:00.000-06:00Yup,I too had more than one penny smashed by the p...Yup,I too had more than one penny smashed by the passing trains. I never tried crossing a stopped train by rolling under or crawling under or anything like that. I waited it out or tried to beat the train to the other crossing. <BR/><BR/>I really am enjoying this blogs about the KCS Glen. I didn't know about the signals they used by the tooting of the steam whistles and I sure didn't know they Bill Hindshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16948396347475405833noreply@blogger.com