Take The Easy Route

[KCRIVERRAT]

Has anybody ever been getting ready to put in or start a float and had someone ask (or overhear them say)...

"Which way do we go?"

Happened to me on the Jacks Fork a few years back...

[Chief Grey Bear]

Ha! That reminds me of a story that happened back in 1998. Jeeze that was 10 yrs ago now.

Anyway I was the engineer on a yard switch engine at Knoche yard in KC. We had a new trainee with us this day. We get our cute little switch engine out of the roundhouse track and head down the ladder track towards the other end of the yard to begin our day banging out cars. I ease up to a red target and the foreman on the job tells the new kid to get down and "line us up." In other words as we were headed down the ladder track, we had a switch that was lined the into a track that we didn't want to go into. So this kid, heck he was in is 20's, jumps down and heads for the switch.

When he gets there, he looks at the switch. Looks at us. Looks at the switch again. Then looks back us again. Confused on which way to throw it, he head back to the engine. Of course the phrases are just a flying in the cab. He gets back in the engine and asks "Which way?" Oh man we died laughing at him! I piped up and said "There is only two ways to throw a switch and its already been thrown one way."