May need to go to my storm shelter early in the morning

[dlgoff]

I may be going to my storm shelter sometime in the early morning:

 

[mcastillo356]

Stormy indeed around here, though isn't about weather.
Peace and love.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Whoever heard of a tornado in Kansas, of all places!

 

[berkeman]

Yikes, stay safe Don!

 

[Bystander]

"I don't think we're in Kansas any more, Toto..."

 

[Vanadium 50]

"She's been that way ever since a house fell on her sister."

 

[jbriggs444]

I may be going to my storm shelter sometime in the early morning:

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When I see Atchison and Topeka, I can't help but thinking of Santa Fe.

 

[Bystander]

When I see Atchison and Topeka, I can't help but thinking of Santa Fe.

Do you actually start humming the tune, though?

 

[Vanadium 50]

Do you hear that whistle down the line?
I figure that it's engine number forty nine
She's the only one that sounds that way
On the Atchison, Topeka And The Santa Fe

Trivia - it doesn't actually go all the way to Santa Fe. There might be a spur.

 

[Astronuc]

Trivia - it doesn't actually go all the way to Santa Fe. There might be a spur.

Correct. It was a branch or spur line, which came off the Raton line at Lamy, NM.

The Santa Fe Southern began operations in 1992, after the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ended operations on its Lamy to Santa Fe branch line and a group of local businesspeople purchased the track to continue freight service in the area. Passenger service was added later on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_Southern_Railway

The Santa Fe originally planned to run from Atchison, Kansas., to Santa Fe, N.M., and then west to California. As the track-building advanced into New Mexico, the civil engineers realized that the terrain around Santa Fe made this an impossible undertaking. The line was built through Lamy instead, and a spur line was built northward to Santa Fe. Amtrak passengers headed to the state capital still alight at Lamy, where a shuttle transports them the remaining 18 miles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamy_station

During the early 20th century the AT&SF completed the Belen Cutoff to the south which bypassed the mountains and cut across the northern plains of Texas.

https://www.american-rails.com/raton.html

Tornado alley extends from SW Texas all the way to SE ND, MN and WI, but it seems to have expanded to the entire Mississippi River Valley. Any home there should expect severe thunderstorms, a derecho, or tornado.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Alley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Alley#/media/File:Tornado_Alley.svg

 

[Bystander]

Trivia - it doesn't actually go all the way to Santa Fe. There might be a spur.

Additionally: Topeka is was the only community actually serviced before the BNSF merger.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Looks like @dlgoff made it through OK. You're out of the woods, you're out of the dark, you're out of the night. Step into the sun; step into the light.