Welcome to route56.com
Welcome to my anchor point on the web. For over 20 years, I have shared various subjects regarding highway, railways, local radio, and more.
I chose the name “route56” in honor of the green and white variant of the US Highway shield that the Kansas Department of Transportation and its predecessor agency used specifically to mark US 56 from the designation of US 56 in 1956 until KDOT elected to adopt the standard black-and-white design in the mid-1980s
Click on the links above to access the pages devoted to the history of local radio and Kansas Highways, along with other creative outlets.
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Latest Blog Posts
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8 Trains in one hour
Saturday morning, I woke up early to open the Lawrence Depot and Greet the eastbound Southwest Chief, as I have occasionally done as a volunteer. It was the first time since the new signs were installed and turned on that I had done so. After the train left and the lights were turned off, I…
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I’m still here
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in GeneralThe past two and a half weeks have been spent travelling between the Kennedy Compound and Topeka on a Temporary assignment. I was part of a team performing a wireless survey. Basically, we checking to make sure the placement of a set of wireless access points at this site corresponds to what the people that…
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The many facets of Me
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in GeneralI am once again in job transition (my current position ends on the 30th), and I recently networked with those in the IT industry who stressed the importance of a personal brand. Evaluating myself, I realize that I juggle multiple brands, and all of them could use a little help. There’s the railfan that can…
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Roadgeek Meet Photos (+ a bonus)
Last Saturday, I had a small group of fellow road enthusiests in Lawrence for a “roadgeek meet.” Basically, we all get together and had lunch, then toured the area roads. For this meet, I chose K-10, US 59, and the new Kansas Turnpike Bridge. I don’t have any pics from the latter. During our outing,…
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Early to bed
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in GeneralOK, let’s see what the heck has been going on in my life: * Tomorrow, I will be hosting several of my fellow road enthusiasts in a “roadgeek meet.” Basically, we’ll get together, have lunch, discuss roads, then go out into the field to see what’s going on (my focus will likely be the Turnpike,…
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Central Kansas, 23 May, 2001:
Some things have changed: US 50B in Ottawa was actually removed soon after this roadtrip, and now US 59 no longer goes through here. K-57 was truncated to K-4 near Dwight, so the K-57 sign at the K-4/K-177 junction is gone. The I-35/US 50 interchange has been completely altered, so there’s no longer a left…
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20 March 2011
I’m a little behind in posting rail photos, but I finally got aroundto posting my photos from the Great Train Expo (better known, albeitinaccurately, as GATS) as well as a couple of shots from Holliday….and who I saw running the gates.
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Back to the Archives…
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in PhotosFor my second post of the day, I bring you my photos from October of 2001.
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The Rest of February
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in PhotosAfter the last week in January/First week in February, I was mostly working my day job and on the local Train show, so I didn’t go out that much. I did, however, get a whole lot of photos at the train show. Photos from that can be found here (as there are too many pictures…
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