Richie Kennedy | route56.com

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.

You can also find me on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, and Flickr.

Latest Blog Posts

  • Birthday presents to myself

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    My birthday was back on June 24.  I went down to the Louisana Terrace crossing west of Ottawa to catch some trains.  Unfortunately, I manage to let my camera fall to the ground.  The lens was toast. My first present to myself was in the form of a new and better lens:  an Sigma DC…

  • Good News

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    My 5 years of experience on the telephone system at GCSAA has drawn the attention of a contractor for Sprint. I submitted my resume, and was invited for a interview. My interview went well, and I was in fact invited to sign on. My new position is to provide technical support… esentially, the “other side”…

  • Back in the Job Market

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    I’ve been working in the IT department over at the Golf Course Superintendants Association of America part time for 5 years. Unfortunately, in order for my supervisior to get the best person to assist the rest of the IT team in their duties, my position had to be eliminated, and I don’t have the experience…

  • A “road crew” Blogger

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    When you’ve got a set of friends like mine, It’s a matter of time before one of them gets into blogging. That someone is Alicia, and you can find her blog here

  • Two by Two

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    I’ve set my iPod on shuffle, and it has wrought a couple of interesting double plays. First off, I get two songs back to back by Steve Wariner, “All Roads Lead to You” and “You can Dream of Me.” The next double play invokes a little religious authority. “If I was Jesus” was a song…

  • Sunday Night Weather

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    First, a nasty thunderstorm cell tore a path through North Lawrence, delivering Hail up to the size of baseballs. Next thing you know, hours after the storm, the power for most of west Lawrence goes out, and you get left in the dark for some time. The rain gauge is still busted, so I don’t…

  • More Felps Fotoshops

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    At the suggestion of the newest NFL cheerleader on the road crew: Alicia. Great Song by Clay Walker Self-explanatory

  • Fotoshop: Starring Phred Felps

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    Another Blogger had an idea about doing a Photoshop contest featuring a picture of Topeka’s favorite anti-gay, anti-everything protestor, Fred Phelps. I decided to join the fun. Appologies in advance to Aimee, Ashley, Deena, Heidi, Cori, Sara, and Rod.

  • They really mean it

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    The following is the Hazardous Weather Outlook for this afternoon. I personally have not seen an outlook so strongly worded. The Storm Prediction Center had put Northeast Kansas under “High” risk for Severe Weather… which means that they expect a major outbreak of severe thunderstorms. HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1228 PM…

  • …and I’m not talking about the big brown truck

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    As an lowest person on the IT totem poll, I usually don’t get called out to the workplace late at night.  However, since my supervisor lives an hour and a half away, and the phone system is my specialty, tonight I got called because the PBX had apparantly gone down. When I got in, the…