Hi, Jimmy...always good to chat with you.

JA> JA>You know the term, "cuss like a sailor?" Well try
spending some time
JA> JA>around firemen and EMS. :-)

JA> DS>   Or even in the railroad yards. :P

JA>Never knew that one...

  From what I understand (I'm a former member of the Arkansas Railroad
Club), that is definitely the case. The movie "End Of The Line", which
had portions of it filmed in central Arkansas, had quite a bit of
language in it...but only for a PG rating.

  Two of my favorite exchanges went like this. To set up, here are the
characters:

Will Haney (played by Wilford Brimley)
Leo Pickett (played by the late Levon Helm)
Tom Clinton (played by Henderson Forsythe)

  The first scene, was when they were in the diesel locomotive, on their
way to Chicago, where the Southland Railroad was headquarted. The second
scene was in the Southland Railroad Headquarters itself.

  Truth be told, some of the scenes were actually from central Arkansas;
including:

1) The yard in St. Louis, and then crossing the Mississippi River there.
The yard was actually the former Missouri Pacific Yard in North Little
Rock (the second biggest on the Union Pacific System now, outside of
North Platte and Omaha, Nebraska)...and the river scene was crossing the
Arkansas River on the former Junction Bridge between Little Rock and
North Little Rock.

  That bridge...along with the former Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific
Railroad Bridge...are now "pedestrian bridges" along the Arkansas River
Trail, which spans both sides of the river from the Clinton Presidential
Library, just east of Interstate 30 just east of downtown. The Clinton
School Of Public Service is in the former Chicago, Rock Island, and
Pacific Railroad Station at Little Rock...out to the Big Dam Bridge,
at Murray Lock And Dam, just east of Interstate 430 on the west side of
town. It originally was a "Spaghetti Warehouse", and it had a special
"dining car" on the track on the east side of the station. Now, the only
track there is from the Arkansas River Rail Trolley System...which
circles through the downtown Little Rock and North Little Rock area.

2) The "office shots" for where Haney and Leo talked to Thomas Clinton
were in bank buildings in downtown Little Rock. The former Worthen Bank
Building is now home to Bank Of America...which at the top, has the U.S.
Bankruptcy Court in Little Rock. When I went down for a hearing of
creditors in 2009, when I filed Chapter 13, the room was PACKED...and
several had gone through bankruptcy several times before.

3) The model railroad setup was literally from a local model railroad
club.

4) The station at Clifford, Arkansas was the former depot at Benton,
Arknasas (that site has long since been razed).

  Anyway, in the locomotive:

Leo: "You know, Haney...I was taking a shower the other day, and I was
trying to remember The Pledge Of Allegiance. And, you know...I couldn't
get it to come to me".

Haney: "Well, sir...grade school was a long time ago".

Leo: "Yes, sir. That's what kept me out of high school".

  In a word, really. If that doesn't describe Arkansas life, I don't
know what does!! :P

  Next, in the office when Clinton, Chairman Of The Board for Southland
Railroad, finds out that his son-in-law, Warren Gerber (I forget the
actors name who played him), was going to shut down Southland Railroad,
and turn it into an air freight company. Haney and Leo had gone there to
try to get Clinton to change his mind, as all the jobs were at stake.

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