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1-No matter what each day brings and no matter where I am I take a nap – every day.
2-At 23 I started a special event business that ultimately led me to planning and co-ordinating corporate events at the Olympic Games.
3-I retired at 40.
4-One day, bored at home, I thought to myself ‘I’m going to the Mayor’s office to meet him.’ So I did and I was let in. He still calls me.
5-I know who and what I am and am more than comfortable and happy with both.
6-There is a streak of adventure in me and I’ll often test my limits. Flying Trapeze School, learning to fly a twin engine airplane, hiking to the top of the Franklin Mountains one day each week I'm in El Paso…to name a few. Dancing across the mountains on the moon is still on my list.
7-On Christmas Eve 2008 a really cool “gift” arrived in the mail – a contract from a publisher for my first book. (**Update** My book was released October 2009 and remains one of the best selling books for my publisher**) My new book is in production now.
8-When I wanted to learn more about photography I contacted a photographer from Vogue Magazine and the photographer responsible for album/cd covers for Pink Floyd, the Muse, Peter Gabriel, et al. and asked if they would teach me. They both said yes and still check on my progress.
9-A pill I take each and every day keeps me alive and I will continue this until there is a cure, but the virus i have doesn’t stop me from living the way life should be lived.
10-I say what I mean, mean what I say, and expect the same from others.
11-Hope one day very soon we can return to generally good manners, and a sense of style.
12-I end each day thankful, and promise myself the next will be a good one. Typically it is.
13-American born in Illinois, grew up in Tripoli Libya (North Africa), some how ended up in El Paso Texas, but also make my home in London.
14-Think every man should read, learn and take to heart Rudyard Kipling’s poem “IF”
15- I never regret the things I've done only the things I haven't though I rarely pass up an opportunity to have any such regret.
16- To top my list of wishes I would want time to be my friend as in this life there is still so much to dream and discover.
Missouri Pacific Railroad 264862 at Cotter, Arkansas, on December 6, 1989, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
MP55GEM Volvo B7TL / Wrightbus Gemini. B76F .
MP Travel,Davyhulme, Manchester, named Oliver.
New as BX55XMP to Abellio Travel London.
Missouri Pacific Railroad 640573 at Cotter, Arkansas on June 28, 1989, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. It was stenciled: NEW 11-75
Enviro 200MMC 721 (EX21 ONE) in Crosville Busway livery leaves Runcorn High St for Liverpool, 15 June 2021. Celebrating 50 years of the Busway.
Volvo B10M-62 Berkhof Axial.
new to Hardings, Betchworth, Surrey
Howards Travel livery
on rail replacement to and from Liverpool Lime Street
Lime Street, Liverpool
Missouri Pacific Railroad F7 808 at Lincoln, Nebraska on an unknown day in September 1965, Kodachrome by Dick Rumbolz, Chuck Zeiler collection. Number 808 was built in October 1949 as MP F7 589 (c/n 7982), renumbered to 808, and renumbered again to 1808, retired in May 1973 and scrapped by Pielet Brothers.
New to Kings Ferry carrying registration FJ10EZH, and latterly with Stantons of Stoke, MP Travel Mercedes Benz OC500RF /Caetano Winner, awaits its next duty on Megabus and is now adorned with the suitable plate ME10BUS.
Missouri Pacific Railroad 592049 at Cotter, Arkansas on November 9, 1989, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
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Missouri Pacific Railroad ballast hopper 16467 at Cotter, Arkansas on December 20, 1989, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Missouri Pacific Railroad SD50 5051 at Cotter, Arkansas on September 29, 1987, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Missouri Pacific Railroad SD50 5025 at Memphis, Tennessee on June 23, 1986, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. The gentleman on the steps will have to get off, run ahead and manually throw a switch, hopefully not stopping his train. He got lucky,
Seen at Stagecoach North West Morecambe Depot Open Day
25th May 2019
Former BX55XMP Abellio London 9039
Missouri Pacific roundhouse foundation at Cotter, Arkansas, sometime in the summer of 1992, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This may be railroad archaeology, but at the time I was employed by a local real estate company to photograph properties in their area. They hired a plane and I shot out the window some aerial photographs of properties they listed. It was only about 10 minutes flight time to "divert" to Cotter, so I railfanned from the air. One shot I got was the skeleton of the roundhouse at Cotter. I went on Google Earth today, and it appears this is now the site of a factory.
One of the reasons for the Cotter roundhouse was the lay of the land. From Batesville to Cotter, the route was built along the banks of the White River, and followed the slightly uphill course to the foothills of the Ozark Mountains at Cotter. So more power was needed to get the trains out of Cotter and up into the Ozark Mountains (really, just steep hills). The MP favored Consolidation locomotives (2-8-0), so for a period of time, westbound trains arriving in Cotter had their locomotives replaced with double-headed 2-8-0s. According to Walter (Mike) Adams book, "The White River Railway", the assets of the White River Railway were conveyed to the St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern, later the Missouri Pacific. The roundhouse was first planned under the White River Railway, constructed under the StLIM&S, and completed under MP ownership. Here are a few quotes from the book:
The company did announce that the roundhouse at Crane would be identical to the one at Cotter and would be built from the same blueprints and by the same B&B forces, just as soon as they finished the work at Cotter. Like everything else on the division, the work on the roundhouse at Cotter suffered from the attentions of the old river. In early March, 1906 a rise threatened to inundate the new structure and less than a month later high winds blew down a portion of the roundhouse walls. Notwithstanding this, the work went on and in late April, 1906 certain B&B crews started moving out of Cotter for Crane. On July 4, 1906, the new turntable was placed in service at Cotter. This eliminated the temporary table installed when it became necessary to remove the wye track to make room for the roundhouse. The old table was far from satisfactory and the crews heartily welcomed the new one. The new table was a standard Philadelphia Bridge Works steel deck girder, 74 feet and 6 inches long. The table was hand operated and the pit was enclosed with a concrete wall and the floor was paved with brick. The concrete pedestal was poured on a footing of deeply driven pilings. An identical table was installed at Crane. The roundhouse was still not complete, being held up waiting for some vital machinery and tools, but when the turntable was completed, engines could be run in out of the weather and some servicing carried out. When a big engine showed up, say a Spot or 1 Class locomotive, everyone within shouting distance was rounded up to man the "push sticks". When the 1200's (2-8-2's) arrived on the north end of the division in 1927, after fighting their weight for two years, management finally approved an AFE (Authority For Expenditures) in October 1929 to install an air-operated tractor. Since the cost of this installation was only $1135.98, one wonders why it took so long to get the AFE approved. It sure cut down on the incidence of hernias among the work force at the Cotter roundhouse. In October 1950 the Division was dieselized, Engine # 14 (2-8-0) left Cotter under steam on Train # 269 headed for Newport and the Arkansas Division, and an era ended. The Cotter roundhouse was closed, no more would the flooding of the White River coat the floor with a foot of mud, no more would the "big whistle" signal a train "in the ditch". The roundhouse, coal chutes, and water tanks were on a standby basis. Before the end of the year (1950), all machinery was dismantled and moved to Sedalia.