[ODDJOB UNO]

heres a lil lowdown on railroads. ever since the "sons of gestapo/hyder" train wreck caused by some azzhole that feeked with the tracks outside gila bend, arizona and totally feeked up a hauling azz AMTRAK killing a few people.........and 9/11 in new york.


YOU HAD BETTER WATCH YER AZZ AROUND RAILROADS!


burlington northern sante fe and southern pacific have their very own PO-PO dept. and they is FEDERALIZED! and they carry BIG GUNS! and they DO PATROL THE LINES! and they HAVE CAMERAS in REMOTE AREAS!

granted this line they ran on is defunct, but its still owned by kaiser steel.


so heres a little more info re: choo's choo's.....................


generally the railroad(any) OWN 1 MILE on EITHER SIDE OF TRACKS! basically this happened back in 1860's and still in some places its still is in place.


anywhere there is track access, there will be a sign unless shot to hell or stolen stating PRIVATE PROPERTY! owned by BNSF or SP or UP!


now since the "salad bowl express" chi town to l.a. double track mainline runs right thru our happy hunting grounds, we know alot about their operations.


one day while hunting in typical camo WITH A LEGAL AZ ELK TAG, i was minding my own biz sitting up on a cut outside PERRIN,AZ. middle of freeking NOWHERE, gazing thru my steiner binos looking for elk.

in the eastern distance i see/hear a white bronco roaring up. no big deal figured more hunters. NOPE! BNSF RAILROAD COPS that get out with M-16's and pistoles, and the very 1st words were "YA BETTER HAVE AN ELK TAG!" holy poo?

they ask for my elk tag, give me the drill, tell me i am trespassing but since i have an elk tag, i can stay as long as i stay away from trains and NOT FEEK WITH THEM!(duh!).

but in my infinite wizdumb , me being me.............i ask "have ya seen any elk road(rail) kill?" and they reply, "at mile marker blah blah we did." and thats where i went looking for elk crossing tracks. and sure as hell found a bunch of cow elk that got nailed at 95mph with a 175 car train.


so................if hunting along any active railway.................ask the "gandy dancers"(look it up) or the track PO-PO's in their pick-ups checking track where the critters are. as they see them all the time. very useful info you can gleam from them re: where critters are and where they aint.



so yeah.............ya better have a current hunting tag if ya EVEN think of driving on ANY railroad access roads. they are not stoopid and anything involving bridges/steep grades/switches/ANYTHING that can disrupt operations, THEY IS WATCHING!


this lil eagle mtn railroad is NOT the mainline so i highly doubt anybody is gonna bother these guys.


oh and by the way, if ya have never seen a train wreck and the carnage that happens...............well let me put it this way. YOU DONT WANT TO BE ANYWHERE AROUND IT, due to all the HAZMAT cars which if ya look now after me mentioning it, are located in the center of the train in the event of a accident to the front or rear of train.


have a few friends that work for or have worked for BNSF, and its a hell of a GOOD JOB to be in especially if ya enjoy trains like i do.


me? i would love to sit on a front of a train like "T.R" old teddy roosevelt and blast elk deer and buffalo and then PIG OUT EATING THEM!


cant think of anything better than a BOX CAR FULL OF ELK DEER BUFFALO hanging!...............i like to dream alot dont i!


ol T.R. WAS WAYYYYYYYYYYYYY KOOL IN MY BOOK!