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 Roundhouse HO Southern Pacific Covered Hopper Car w Original Box $4.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 1h 1m |
 3 Athearn hoppers Southern Lehigh Valley and Seaboard $9.00 Time Remaining: 1h 11m |
 Bachmann 98204 Southern Quad Hopper w Coal Load Box $20.37 (7 Bids) Time Remaining: 1h 24m |
 HO 187 34 Hopper Car SOUTHERN PACIFIC SP 464000 $1.32 (2 Bids) Time Remaining: 1h 45m |
 K LINE K6244 2031 SOUTHERN PACIFIC SP ALUMINUM O SCALE 4 BAY HOPPER TRAIN CAR $64.95 Time Remaining: 1h 47m |
 HO 187 50 Covered Hopper SOUTHERN PACIFIC SP 401990 Metal Wheels $2.82 (2 Bids) Time Remaining: 1h 48m |
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 N Scale Southern Railway 34 Rib Side 2 Bay Hopper Car by Micro Trains $4.14 (3 Bids) Time Remaining: 15h 26m |
 Athearn Southern Railway 100 ton ACF Center Flow Covered Hopper $13.50 (6 Bids) Time Remaining: 16h 38m |
 Front Range Southern Pacific 3 Bay ACF Center Flow Covered Hopper Kadees $8.00 Time Remaining: 16h 38m |
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 HO ROUNDHOUSE SOUTHERN PACIFIC 2 BAY COVERED HOPPER CAR KIT1435 NIB $6.00 Time Remaining: 18h 28m |
 ATLAS PS 2 2 BAY COVERED HOPPER SOUTHERN ROAD 280239 HO $10.00 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 19h 47m |
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 Southern Pacific SP 490567 CD Quad Hopper Atlas 3702 N Scale MY18T29 $7.95 Time Remaining: 1d 1h 23m |
 N SCALE 70 Ton Offset Side 3 Bay Hopper w Load Single Car Kansas City Southern $11.50 Time Remaining: 1d 2h 22m |
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 N scale ATLAS 40 foot Airslide hopper SOUTHERN PACIFIC New $9.99 Time Remaining: 1d 9h 20m |
 RARE MTH ONE GAUGE PROTOTYPE G GAUGE NORFOLK SOUTHERN 4 BAY HOPPER CAR 70 70003 $74.99 Time Remaining: 1d 14h 12m |
 70 Ton 3 Bay Hopper w Coal Load Norfolk Southern MTH 20 97737 $52.47 Time Remaining: 1d 14h 46m |
 LIONEL 6 27457 Norfolk Southern 3 Bay Die Cast Coal Hopper 148028 $79.95 Time Remaining: 1d 14h 56m Buy It Now for only: $79.95 |
 70 Ton 3 Bay Hopper w Coal Load Norfolk Southern NW 9822 MTH 20 97737 $52.47 Time Remaining: 1d 16h 6m |
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 Accurail HO 7714 55 Ton Offset Twin Hopper Southern $12.90 Time Remaining: 1d 18h 14m Buy It Now for only: $12.90 |
 Lionel 19311 Southern Pcific Covered Hopper 1990 $24.95 Time Remaining: 1d 18h 16m Buy It Now for only: $24.95 |
 ATLAS HO SCALE 2 BAY COVERED HOPPER SOUTHERN 900171 $28.50 Time Remaining: 1d 18h 56m Buy It Now for only: $28.50 |
 HO 36 Two Bay Open Hopper Southern Pacific NIB $7.38 Time Remaining: 1d 18h 57m Buy It Now for only: $7.38 |
 G GAUGE ARISTO WOODEN STYLE COAL HOPPER CAR COLORADO SOUTHERN $47.15 Time Remaining: 1d 19h 27m |
 Walthers 932 7823 Gold Line Trinity RD 4 Coal Hopper 6 Pack Norfolk Southern $119.95 Time Remaining: 1d 19h 39m Buy It Now for only: $119.95 |
 Lionel 16402 SOUTHERN QUAD HOPPER w COAL LOAD NIB O Sca $41.97 Time Remaining: 1d 19h 53m Buy It Now for only: $41.97 |
 N scale AHM Southern Pacific Hopper SP 480804 $7.99 Time Remaining: 1d 22h 32m Buy It Now for only: $7.99 |
 Athearn PS 2893 Covered Hopper Southern Very Rare NIB $15.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 1d 23h 21m |
 Atlas 40 Kansas City Southern Airslide Hopper Made in 1992 Original Jewel Case $4.95 Time Remaining: 1d 23h 54m |
 Atlas 40 Kansas City Southern Airslide Hopper Road Number 5120 Original Case $4.95 Time Remaining: 1d 23h 58m |
 M2 LIONEL 52038 1994 LCCA CONVENTION CAR SOUTHERN HOPPER MINT $57.00 Time Remaining: 2d 16m Buy It Now for only: $57.00 |
 ATLAS 1806 2 Southern PS 2 2 Bay Covered Hopper Car 900171 Weathered $29.99 Time Remaining: 2d 39m Buy It Now for only: $29.99 |
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 N Scale Original NS Norfolk Southern 3 Bay Covered Hopper 5001 Con Cor Lot 55 $5.61 (6 Bids) Time Remaining: 2d 2h 47m |
 N Scale Original NS Norfolk Southern 3 Bay Covered Hopper 5012 Con Cor Lot 56 $5.50 (6 Bids) Time Remaining: 2d 2h 49m |
 N Scale Original NS Norfolk Southern 3 Bay Covered Hopper 5026 Con Cor Lot 57 $6.00 (4 Bids) Time Remaining: 2d 2h 50m |
 LIONEL NORFOLK SOUTHERN COAL HOPPER train car ns o gauge 6 30158 H $1.29 (2 Bids) Time Remaining: 2d 2h 54m |
 Southern Pacific RIO GRANDE HOPPER TRAIN COLLECTIBLE $24.90 Time Remaining: 2d 3h 46m Buy It Now for only: $24.90 |
 Bachmann N Scale Southern Open Quad Offset Hopper $5.99 Time Remaining: 2d 14h 44m Buy It Now for only: $39.99 |
 Custom Weathered HO Athearn Southern 54 PS Covered Hopper 3 Bay UP $4.25 (4 Bids) Time Remaining: 2d 15h 28m |
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 Athearn Two Hoppers one is a B AND O Other one is a Southern 352452 $1.25 (2 Bids) Time Remaining: 2d 15h 42m |
 Athearn Two Hoppers one is a B AND O Other one is a Southern 352452 $0.99 Time Remaining: 2d 15h 47m |
 Athearn SOUTHERN 352454 HOPPER $2.00 (2 Bids) Time Remaining: 2d 16h 45m |
 Athearn SOUTHERN 352455 HOPPER $2.00 (2 Bids) Time Remaining: 2d 16h 47m |
 Athearn SOUTHERN 352450 HOPPER $2.00 (2 Bids) Time Remaining: 2d 16h 49m |
 + RARE MTH PREMIER PROTOTYPE NORFOLK SOUTHERN HOPPER 6 CAR SET 20 90086 $189.99 Time Remaining: 2d 17h 13m |
 MICRO TRAINS Nscale 3 BAY HOPPER LONG HATCH SOUTHERN PACIFIC SP 496532 $17.50 Time Remaining: 2d 17h 58m Buy It Now for only: $17.50 |
 MICRO TRAINS Nscale 2 BAY HOPPER IN SOUTHERN 91801 $12.50 Time Remaining: 2d 17h 58m Buy It Now for only: $12.50 |
 HO SCALE TRAIN Lot 2 Cars Southern Pacific Center Flow Hopper Pepper Packing Box $19.79 Time Remaining: 2d 18h 46m Buy It Now for only: $19.79 |
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 Custom Weathered HO Atlas Southern Pacific 2 Bay PS 2 Covered Hopper $24.95 Time Remaining: 2d 21h 38m |
 HO Athearn Lot of 5 Southern Pacific 34 Hoppers with loads SP $19.99 Time Remaining: 2d 21h 49m |
 Spectrum On30 Scale Train Hopper North Pole Southern $0.01 Time Remaining: 2d 22h 18m |
Grown Man Cries From Hot Chile Peppers
Harvey Morrow and I were driving through the fields of Hatch, New Mexico. I didn't know it at the time but the Morrow family owns hundreds of acres in the southern New Mexico Valley, enough to have become a top grower of chiles, onions and a variety of other staples. Of course, I was interested in the green chile and to test my resolve, I'd driven 1000 miles to discuss my dreams of starting in the gourmet food business. Morrow Farms was just the place for me.
"So, y'all want to get into the chile business". He commented.
I did. My wife had created a green chile sauce in our California kitchen and it was worth bottling. Like the guy who built the baseball diamond, knowing the fans would arrive, I was certain we could corner some of the gourmet sauce market.
Harvey Morrow was a soft spoken man, one of few words who wore a straw cowboy hat and denim shirts. Today he chewed on something that liked like hay, but it could have been a toothpick. I wondered why he took the time to drive me through the fields and why he even considered my request to purchase green chile from his family. Did he get a lot of city slickers like me who yearned for a bumpy and dusty drive through rows of alfalfa and chile?
I told him about the green sauce we'd created and about my passion for the green stuff. Chile, I explained, was in my blood. heck, it was in my bones. What was it about New Mexico Chile that was so good? So different?
I learned from him that the Hatch Valley once had a volcano erruption and the hot lave might be what made the chile taste so good. One thing was for certain, the best chile is planted and harvested in southern New Mexico.
The white Ford truck finally stopped at the edge of countless rows of chile plants. harvy placed both hands on the steering wheel and looked out over the thousands of rows before us. Perhaps this was a farmers meditation, or maybe he was just admiring the crop. Rows straight, vibrant green atop fertile mounds of rich soil.
I reached for the door, but waited as he surveyed the surroundings. Farmers, I've learned are quiet by nature. Introspective much of the time and for the most part they can be philosophical, but many are too quiet to share the wisdom they've learned from the land.
"Do you want hot chile or mild"? He finally asked.
I'd never been in a fraternity in college and only had one brother, so I never had to prove much in my lifetime. No initiation rights, crazy acts of bravado. Not even tested in war or proven to be a man. Sure, I've had some success in business, but sitting in that truck with a man like Harvey just brought all those male hormones to the front burner. Hot or mild. Just what kind of chile man was I to become?
"Well, I want the hot stuff". I said.
He tipped his hat a bit, raising it off is forehead and when he did I noticed steel eyes. Eagle eyes that I imagined could spot a leaf hopper miles away. He screwed up his mouth, flicked the straw out the window and opening the door, said, Well, let's go.
Thinking back, he could have added the moniker, son, after that sentence. Let's go, son. As in your lessons are just starting. Y'all want to come down here to my farm, to the epicenter of green chile-Hatch Valley. Y'all are bringing your city attitude in a foreign rental car on to my farm and y'all want some hot chile? Ok, let's go son.
Of course, Harvey Morrow never said that. He's far too much of a gentleman and much too kind to say such words and in fact he said very little. Once we approached the plant row he was searching for, he opened a pocketknife and bending low, sliced a brilliant green pod from the plant. He smelled it, eyed the little monster for a second then turned to me and said, "See if this is what you're looking for."
I'd finally made it, I thought. A step closer to bottling our green chile sauce, a cooking sauce resplendent with flavor and I could envision a bottle on every table in America. I just needed the right chile.
As I started to bite into the green pod, I noticed Harvey kick some dirt, waiting as I relived my dreams. It was hot in Hatch, but nothing prepared me for the heat I was about to consume. Even the sun, shining bright behind Harvey, seemed mild compared to what was happening in my mouth.
Of course, I couldn't spit it out. How could I? To do so would be a disgrace, but more important was my pride and my arrival in the Chile Capital of The World. Instead I chewed as Harvey looked on. Never once did his expression change and in fact it wasn't until my eyes started to roll back inside my head, that he cracked a grin. That impassive manner finally gave way and he burst out laughing. But did I stop? Not a chance. i was too dumb to know what to do.
"Y'all can spit that out before I have to haul you over to the doctor".
With his permission, I started spitting and prayed for the chile gods to rescue me. Instead it was Harvey who came to my aid.
"Look here". He said. "The first thing you need to learn is to never bite into a green chile. When we test in the field, we never do that. Look here".
As my eyeballs came back into focus, I watched him unfold the same pocket knife and as he bent to retrieve another chile from the plant, I prayed it wasn't for me. Realizing it wasn't I thanked the great capsicum god in the Hatch volcano and considered crying.
Harvey sliced open the pod length wise and as he peeled the upper half off, he revealed to me a golden channel of veins. I'd seen them before, the white portion of green chile, only this chile possessed none of what I was used to.
"If the veins are anything but white", he said, "it's hot and the deeper the color, the hotter the chile".
We were back in the truck, bouncing along the dirt pathways when I could finally speak. Granted it was a whisper at first and I don't remember what I said, but I remember how grateful I felt for my first lesson. Harvey was the perfect teacher. And he was kind, much more so that I'd been in my lifetime. After a while, we rode in silence and all of a sudden he slowed and again stared out the window of the truck. I remembered the zen moment earlier, but this time he said,
"We got hotter chile if you want to taste some of that. This time we both laughed and again my eyes started to water".
About the Author
Coyote Trail Cooking Sauces, have won many awards most notably for the BEST RED CHILE in the state of New Mexico. Today, they can be purchased at retail stores throughout the Southwest or on line through their web site where unique recipes can also be found