It's a late summer evening on the Vaguely Wiscasset & Quebec. The 6:10 from Machias is arriving at Columbia Falls even later than usual. A couple of disgruntled VW&Q employees were evidently standing on the tracks.
Labor difficulties are nothing new for the VW&Q. Ed quit when Barry wouldn't let him run the train, and now Barry has to stoke the coal and man the throttle.
And here are those employees who were on the tracks. "There can't be another railroad on the planet that makes it employees sweep the ballast," mutters Ray to Brenda. Sounds like Ray is giving up dreams of management to become a union man.
Meanwhile, down on at the barn, Farmer Brian and his aging father are tending the livestock. Figuring that food costs will keep on rising, they've switched to plastic pigs and styrene steers. "A bit chewy," says Brian, "but cheap."
And here's Kris, Farmer Brian's mom. Looks like she's going to get some bull.
So ends a summer evening on the Vaguely Wiscasset & Quebec. Hope yours was just as beautiful and a bit more peaceful.
3 comments:
Brenda and I have been sitting here a good part of the morning enjoying the story and the photos. This also is great way to keep members checking the blog to see if they show up in one of the photo magic stories. Scott even if you are not sure of names, a group of folks standing on a platform waiting for a train would keep interest up. This is great personal entertainment. Awesome Job Scott.
Excellent job! Your story and photos are great.
Thank you,
John
Scott,
With the roaring success of your photos and story lines, those of use who have been blessed to be in one of the shots will now have to consider joining the "Actor's Guild" so that we can start getting paid for the hard work. After all, my back is still 'killing me' from sweeping all of that ballast!
Seriously though, keep up the good work - we are all finding it quite entertaining. You also need to seriously consider putting some of these in future issues of the Iron Horse, since not all of our members have access to the Blog...
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