Old Man Crackens

Old Man Cracken's Appearance

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**Richard Jay Crackens**, affectively known as **Old Man Crackens**, is a homeless man who lives next to the North Valley's at Crackensville, a town just south of Smithton.

## Bio:

Richard Crackens is a "wise" old man who has good advice for those who need it. He loves to tell stories to those who visit him, most of the time he spends a lot of time telling. He lives in a rusty old scrap barn next to the Plain County Fair, which is also a junkyard. He is also a huge collector of railroad equipment, owning a lot of crossbuck crossings, an old APP signal, a crossing gate, and more. He also has a cat named Tom, and he owns and restored Lenny, and also owns Abagayle.

Old Man Crackens was born in Cullman, Alabama on February 10th, 1932 to Rusty Walter Crackens and Betty Jay Crackens. While in 6th grade, he was drafted to serve in WW2. He became homeless after he returned from serving, and he traveled his way to live by the North Valley.

While wise, Crackens is also crazy, due to him being schizophrenic. Most of his stories are made-up. He claims he stole a bunch of things during WW2, Vietnam, etc., although most of them are not true. He claims to have served in World War 2, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War when he was younger, though he has no real proof. His stories always start with him claiming he stole a certain thing from a certain place, always ending with "they cried, the end."

Although schizophrenic, he does show that he cares for the locomotives and Mr. McGuire. He often visits the main yard when he feels like it, but most of the time he's at his home, which is in a rundown junkyard. His home is located at a unincorporated town called Crackensville, which he claims to be the mayor off.

## Non-Canon Extras:

Crackens is most well known for his non-canon persona.

Here's a list of random non canon Crackens facts:

1. He stole an assortment of railroad equipment for his collection. Which include:
	* Over 20 crossbucks. (2 with stop on red signal signs)
	* A crossing gate.
	* A railroad crossing Christmas tree.
	* 2 water towers.
	* A CN signal bridge.
	* A boiler.
2. His father, Rusty Walter Crackens, is the mascot of Cracker Barrel.
3. He is married to a robot anime AI girl that he named Ramen Noodles.
4. He drives a 1985 Mercedes TN Transporter that is super loud and has the power to cause a eclipse.
5. He teleported every character in the series, and Mid-Michigan Rail Stories, into a GoAnimate world that he's the governor of.
	* This is portrayed in the series The Michigan Boys by G.C.R Productions.
6. He has a pet cat named Tom the Cat that is obsessed with lasagna.
7. He runs a space program called "Crackens' Space Program."
8. He carries a flintlock gun with him he named "Old Betsy."
9. He owns and restored Lenny with his bare hands.
10. He stole Abagayle just so Lenny could have a "step-sister."
11. He has a rivalry with another hobo named Grand Pappy Harold.
12. He stole a Ferris wheel and put it on the other side of the railroad tracks next to his home, which he calls "The Plain County Fair."
13. He has a broken TV at his home, and he "watches" it by taking heavy doses of LSD.

In the non-canon shorts, his stories and gags are mostly, jokingly true.

## Appearance:

Old Man Crackens wears old dirty clothes along with an old boater hat with a feather in it, and raggy boots. His model also shows him smoking a cigarette, holds a cane, and sits on a old box. His model also appears to have a newspaper in his pocket, along with a bag underneath him.

His Trainz model asset name is "Derelict person 01." This model is built-in on TANE and TS2019.

## Trivia:

* He's the first hobo character to be named.