What has astonished me has been the population growth in east Texas since the army had me in Fort Hood in 1959. Back then Dallas and Fort Worth were separate cities with 30 miles of prairie between them … today they have literally grown together. Before he died, I recall Roy King telling me it took him two hours to get home from Fort Worth in the rush hour!!!!! Most of East Texas was open prairie in 1959. Well, this time I found that the 60 or so miles from San Antonio to Austin has also grown together. Like Los Angeles extends today from the ocean all the way east about 100+ miles into San Bernardino and Riverside counties, east Texas is very close to becoming one city from San Antonio, almost 400 miles to Oklahoma. If you think I'm kidding, go drive it. In World War II my uncle, a young lieutenant was sent to a god-foresaken place in the Texas prairies called Camp Hood. My aunt went with him. The adjacent town of Killeen then only had a population of a few hundred people so they had to live 20 miles away in Belton. When I was stationed at Fort Hood in 1959, Killeen was home to about 15,000 to 20,000 people. Today, with all those older married soldiers and the enlarged emphasis placed on the fort, Killeen today is home to 129,000 people. The old downtown is dead. The stores are now on a two-mile strip on the bypass that used to go past the town. And a new expressway has been built around the old bypass around the middle of the village. On Aug 9, 2012, at 12:24 PM, Derrick Brashear wrote: > 765 was just in Bellevue. > > It will be headed to Harrisburg Monday, so you get your chance again. > > I chased it from Bucyrus to Conway Tuesday; I also shot it in New > Galilee, among other places. > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Fred Schneider wrote: >> Only once did I see one of those critters running. It was a on a High Iron fantrip on the CNJ to Scranton. Track was so bad that on the return south toward Allentown the coupler knuckles slid apart, the train pulled in two and it torpedoed into emergency. >> >> I had made plans in 1956 or 1957 to go to Bellevue, Ohio with friends to chase the Berks on the Nickel Plate and my father proceeded to tell me every place I had been in the last six months and then told me that I was going to spend that weekend studying. Well, I don't think I studied but I sure didn't go to Ohio. >> >> >> On Aug 7, 2012, at 10:56 PM, Herb Brannon wrote: >> >>> The attached photo was taken today, in New Galilee PA, as NKP765 was >>> deadheading from Columbus, OH to Pittsburgh, PA. >>> On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Dennis F Cramer wrote: >>> >>>> Norfolk Southern to host Nickel Plate 765 in Pennsylvania. >>>> You can track the locomotive here: >>>> >>>> http://fortwaynerailroad.org/locate.html >>>> >>>> Horseshoe Curve will be hosting 2 events >>>> >>>> http://www.railroadcity.com/docs/curveflyer.pdf >>>> >>>> August 6th - Williamson - Columbus, Ohio (deadhead) >>>> August 7th - Columbus, OH - Pittsburgh, PA (deadhead) >>>> >>>> August 11th - Conway Yard - OC Bridge (2 trips) >>>> August 12th - Conway Bridge - Homewood Junction (2 trips) >>>> >>>> August 13th - Conway - Harrisburg (deadhead) >>>> >>>> August 18th - Enola - CP Capitol (3 trips) >>>> August 19th - Enola - CP Capitol (2 trips) >>>> >>>> August 20th - Harrisburg, PA - Pittsburgh (deadhead) >>>> August 21st - Pittsburgh, PA - Bellevue, OH (deadhead) >>>> >>>> >>>> Dennis F. Cramer >>>> http://home.windstream.net/dfc1 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Herb Brannon >>> In Cuyahoga Valley National Park >>> >>> >>> >>> -- Attached file removed by Ecartis and put at URL below -- >>> -- Type: image/jpeg >>> -- Size: 91k (94198 bytes) >>> -- URL : http://lists.dementix.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/NKP765%20enroute%20to%20Conway.jpg >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > -- > Derrick > >