Came back from breakfast this morning, and there’s amessage on the phone, from a neighbor… ““There’s cows heading your way””…
Looked out in yard, didn’t see anything out of normal… About 1 pm, the front neighbors rang the doorbell… They stated, ““Our cows decided to take a tour of your railroad””… Upon this notification we all went and toured the backyard…
We had 2 inches of rain on Friday, and everything is just now, thawing out, so the ground is totally saturated… Following the trail the cows made, was easy, as everyone of their steps sank about 6-7 inches into the ground…
Followed their trail as they hit the tracks at Sparta, crossing just north of Hadley Forest, then on to the long bridge, and decided not to go thru the open area, but took out the short bridge span at Bluefield… They then headed on out to Memphis, and south towards Evansville… Crossed the waterwayjust southeast of Evansville, and proceeded on a shortcut to Nashville… Crossed the Hilltop Mainlinejust north of Nashville, then headed toward Overlook, but crossed back over the Hilltop Subdivison, scross the EVWR tracks and headed down to Woodlawn… Decided to turn around and head back home, crossing the EVWR tracks and the Hilltop subdivision, before heading back their own yard…
All in all, they managed to step on the tracks in about a dozen places, and or course, these places are over the railroad…
When it dries out, it will be fun to cut and splice in new trachage, not to mention, fill in all the hoof prints all over the backyard…
Of course during this tour, all the dogs around, just had to take the tour with us…
This is all part of the fun of living out in the country… Think this is about the 4th time that cows have visited the railroad, and from 3 different neighbors…
Had a group of male Holsteins visit us once, they traveled 2 miles to get a look at the railroad… Of course, took us about 3 hours to locate where they came from…
Yup, spring has sprung…
