Prichett, Colorado 1983

In 1983 I was transferred to the Work Train Station out Springfield, Colorado. I was first assigned as the engineer. As I was traveling through Dodge City I stop at the office to talk with some of my friends. What I did not know was the Crew Caller was trying to fine me. When I walk in I was told to call the Crew Dispatcher in Newton. That was when I found out that I was displaced off the job.  I found out the only job I could work was as the Fireman on the same job that I was assigned to. So I went on to Springfield as the Fireman and went to bed. When I got up the next morning to go to work the Crew caller was calling the Station Agent, they wanted to talk with me. Well, I was displaced again but they was going to let me work one trip on the Jordan Spreader. To make this story shorter, I was laid off when I got back to Newton.

The Jordan Spreader had many different jobs on the Santa Fe. They was a snow plow, earth mover and ditch cuter. This was the bulldozer on the rail, if bulldozer could do it so could the spreader, almost everything. Somebody in the Engineer Department had decided that a flat right of way and then the ditch had to be changed. So the slope was cut back to the edge of the ties to move water away from the ties. This was what the spreader was doing on the track between Springfield and Prichett, Colorado just west of the US – 160.

How many days does mankind have? We are given each day one second at a time. Time is not a measurement from one point to another. It is not the earth turning. It is a moment that God gives us from Genesis 1:5 until the last, it is Gods. God will take us away from this world into the next. Each of us has to make a chose; we either choose to follow the eternal and all powerful God, or live eternity with the consequent. God is the one give us life and He is the one who takes it. Pharaoh found that out in Exodus 11:4&5 Thus saith the LORD “About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die”. God is the one who give live and death.

Have you made a chose’s? You have already. You chose to believe or not. I would hope that you would chose your next second very carefully.