I got a HUGE kick out of reading this tonight. I participate in a L&N Yahoo Discussion Group and this was one of the posts on there. The post is referring to the Ky Railroad Museum located in New Haven, Ky.
Maybe their’s a possibility the dude will learn his lesson now. Or find a “decent” girlfriend in the gray bar motel.
Brian(KY)
Last weekend and this weekend was our annual Day Out With Thomas event
at KRM. Normally, our excursions run north out of New Haven, but for
Thomas, we run about 3 miles down the south end of the line. Last
Saturday, Willy Ward, our track superintendent, was out performing his
inspection of the line before our first rides of the day when he spied
a pickup truck sitting in the gauge about a mile out of town, a little
bit below the siding where we store rolling stock we can’t fit in the
yard at New Haven.
A non hi-rail truck in the gauge is definitely a non-normal situation
for us, and upon closer investigation Willy saw that the truck had two
flat tires, obviously blown out as this individual attempted to drive
up the track, and there was no driver to be seen.
Willy called appropriate authority to the scene, and when the
executive director and other museum members showed up, other details
were noticed…namely, a boxcar that we use to store spare parts and
is normally kept locked was sitting with the door open, and there were
a number of parts lying in the ditch around the truck. They realized
very quickly that this SOB was a metal thief, something we have had a
great deal of trouble with of late, and he had attempted to pull his
truck down to the boxcars on the siding to make it easier load up our
stuff.
We called our local friendly law enforcement agency, the Nelson County
Sheriff’s department, who quickly arrived and called in t