Sometime after moving to Alliance NE in the late 70's, my wife and I took a trip up into Wyoming that included a stop in Edgemont (not exactly on a main travel route, but I talked her into it so I see a little more of the railroad I was dispatching).
She needed to use the "facilities" someplace while we were in town, and when she returned to the car, she had the goofiest look on her face. When I asked her what that was all about, she replied "The toilet - there was hot water in it!". I leave the details of her experience to your imagination.
Larry Sallee
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Winton" <wyhog@...> wrote:
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> > Edgemont, SD quite a place... When they transferred me there, my wife cried.
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> I can certainly understand why she did that. I didn't even like spending the few hours there as my away-from-home terminal working out of Alliance, and I tried to limit those occasions to as few possible.
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> Being engineer on the Edgemont to Deadwood local was a kick though. I really liked that run.
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> Things must have certainly changed on the Edgemont-Gillette territory from when I was working into Gillette. At that time they needed bodies so bad that you couldn't get fired if you tried, and several tried just to get a few days off.
> "Dispatcher to extra 5835 west, did you get by the absolute signal at west Moorcroft?"
> "Extra 5835 west, Yes, I skidded by it a few feet."
> "Ok, well back her up into the clear."
> "But.. you don't understand dispatcher, I got past the red absolute."
> "Yeh, back it up into the clear and wait for a signal."
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> When I was working out of Sheridan I went to Minneapolis and talked to the Soo Line. While talking to the Soo Line human resources fella he asked me if I knew anything about Edgemont, SD? I said yes I had worked into there. He asked me, "What is wrong with that place? We get at least one inquiry a month from BN people there wanting to come to work for the Soo."
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