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There are only two weeks left before the Ozark Invitational Foamer Weekend in Springfield, Mo. If you know someone who might be interested or want to bring a friend along, don't let the invitational part bother you. I do need to have a count of who and how many to count on so that I may be able to make all of the necessary arrangements. There is a new Days Inn??? almost within walking distance of my place (less than a mile). And while I am on the south side of town and the yards are on the north side of Springfield, it takes less than twenty minutes, usually 15 minutes to get there. I also need to know the times you will be arriving and whether you will be able to be here the entire time or just the weekend. The other thing I need to know is, if you want to go all of the way to Thayer and spend a night or two at the River View Motel in Mammoth Spring. I am not sure how that will work with everyone coming at different times but I can try to work it out if demand warrants it. I do anticipate that the attendance will not be that large to preclude being flexible and making decisions on the spur of the moment. But it does help to know who is coming, when, and what they would like to do or see. If you are interested, I have made up my use a set of Delorme maps of each subdivision. I can have copies made at Kinko's for each of you if you would like to have one. I am not sure what it would cost to have them copied and bound, but if you want one let me know and I will look into it. Train traffic has been rather light, but has been getting back to normal. We are still running an average of thirty two trains a day out of Springfield. With about half of them going south to Memphis. It appears as the big concentration of traffic is happening around Thayer in the morning hours. As the north bound trains are hitting Springfield from noon to four pm. and the southbound trains are hitting Springfield after midnight to the wee hours of the morning. But there are still plenty of trains to shoot. Last Sunday I went out with Terry LaFrance,to shoot the Thayer Sub. and we got a late start around 10am because we had shot the A&M passenger train the day before and didn't get back until after midnight. We chased a Z train south to Mountain Grove and caught it meeting three northbounders along the way. The last northbounder, we decided to chase back north to the new siding location at Lock, which I had not seen and wanted to check out. There use to be some really nice shots there and I was told how much it had changed. Well it has changed quite a bit, but the shots have gotten even better and many more of them to chose from. No brush and foliage to shoot around. Almost like being out west. But for you foliage fans, give it a couple of years and it will look like the rest of the Ozarks. Our intension was to wait there for the next northbounder to chase the rest of the way back to Springfield, but he never appeared and wasn't out of Thayer yet. So we gave up and came home as the cloud cover was getting rather thick and the light got flat and dark. But not dark enough to make of dramatic pictures. But there were still a couple of trains about to leave Springfield. So if the light hadn't been in that in between stage, we could have finished the day out with another couple of southbounders. Let me know if you are still going to be able to make it and what you would like to do. Looking forward to seeing all of you in two weeks. Charlie Charlie Dischinger - Somewhere in the Ozarks. Springfield, Missouri ======================================================= -> SPORRS: 'Serious Photographers Of Railroad Related Subjects' -> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/ -> Message © 1998 SPORRS® - All Rights Reserved =======================================================
