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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 its creation until 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


  • in the mountains

    Today was spent enjoying the scenery of the mountains in southwestern Jefferson County, Colo. In particular, we stopped in to the small town of Pine, where a old high school friend of my mom is the proprieter of a bar on Jefferson County road 126 called the Elk Creek Station. We also took in the…

  • burnt toast

    this morning, while having a contenential breakfast in the hotel, someone tried to toast their bread very dark. The burnt toast set off the fire alarm. My brother had to exit the hotel in his boxers. Better safe than sorry.

  • vacation notes

    two days on the road…. we’ve made it to the Quality Suites at Evergreen Parkway on the west side of Denver. When fueling up in Wakeeney, the Phillips 66 station offered 89 Octane gas as regular, and 90 for midgrade. Ethanol fuel, anyone. At Goodland, several members of a car colector club happened to be…

  • Rain gauge

    Got about .85 inches, with more on the way. However, I won’t be her to report it.

  • going on vacation

    Tommorow Morning, I will be leaving on vacation with my parents. Our destination: Coloroado

  • weather syndication

    after briefly taking the sydicati0n off, one of my co-workers noted the fact that I had been syndicating the weather feeds, so I decided to turn them back on :). Word to Tracy….

  • on the street

    As I was heading home from work this evening, I notice a couple of joggers heading east down the Bob Billings Parkway as I was about to turn north on Clinton Parkway. One of them happened to reconize and wave at me — it was Debbie Slack

  • wet wet wet

    Another 1.9 inches fell into the rain gauge as of this writing. A potential for flodding is forecast… The weather service has put us in a flood watch.

  • the front porch

    Johnny’s tavern, a local bar here in town, has a “Cajun night” every 1st and 3rd wendsday. Billy Spears and the Beer Bellies normally plays a blend of country and bluegrass. This week at Johnny’s, I ran into someone who I hadn’t seen in a while: Brityn Nieder

  • you know you’re hardcore when….

    when attending a meeting on the new US 59 freeway, I was reconized by two folks there, one a retired KDOT engineer, another one of the KDOT reps there….