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End-of-year organizing brought this to the surface: a newspaper clipping from April 2010. Bill Clawson was conductor with Fred Pearce on the work trains that took up the QAP track from Floydada to Paducah in 1981-82...Clyde King was engineer.  L.L. Tidmore and I operated the nightly Quanah switcher with engineer Dee Smith and fireman Charley Sparkman. Billy Smith was one of the many men that transferred from Quanah to Enid when QLA, QSF, CTB were diverted to the Avard connection in 1973.  Lowery was an excellent list handler.

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And then there was the youthful yard crew at Hutchison, KS, who were killing time, waiting for the big elevator to release the night's pickup.  The boys started amusing themselves by making giant silhouettes against the concrete silos while standing in front of the headlight on the nose platform.  There was an alligator, a barking dog, etc.  And then somebody got a spare air hose out of the nose compartment.  Two ladies on their way home from Wednesday night prayer meeting almost drove off the road.  After they recovered, they went right down to the police station to report what they had seen.  The police called the railroad, and a Trainmaster was called out to handle it.  He did his best to keep a straight face while making sure there would never, never ever, be a repeat performance.

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And then there was the youthful yard crew at Hutchison, KS, who were killing time, waiting for the big elevator to release the night's pickup.  The boys started amusing themselves by making giant silhouettes against the concrete silos while standing in front of the headlight on the nose platform.  There was an alligator, a barking dog, etc.  And then somebody got a spare air hose out of the nose compartment.  Two ladies on their way home from Wednesday night prayer meeting almost drove off the road.  After they recovered, they went right down to the police station to report what they had seen.  The police called the railroad, and a Trainmaster was called out to handle it.  He did his best to keep a straight face while making sure there would never, never ever, be a repeat performance.

I should be more "grown up" about this, but I can't stop laughing about this one. 

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