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Subject: [CBQ] BN E's in Nashville (was Re: What we give our children)
From: "Stephen J. Levine" <sjl@prodigy.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 07:31:32 -0000
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Steve

Beneath the West to North ramp between I-40 and I-24 in Nashville, 
TN, if you look in the Nashville and Eastern's yard, you will see two 
ex-BN-Q E9's, still in the BN paint scheme they wore when they 
retired from Metra.

sjl

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Steven Holding" <s.holding@c...> wrote:
> Stephen
> I see why you like to ride trains.  I started with a trip to visit 
grandma
> in England in 1960.  My cousins were the same age and we went train
> spotting.  Going to the local division point in the front of the 
big red
> double deck bus(upstairs of course).  Home was on the train in the 
neat
> english carriages with drop sash windows.  And most of it was all 
STEAM.  We
> did go to visit grandma and grandpa in Michigan they lived on the 
old LS&MS
> on the train once.  Dad and I use to shoot movies(growing up in 
the '60's it
> was movies not camcorders) of the Q fan trips an once shot some 
local
> traffic down south of the stoveworks in Aurora.  A three car local
> passenger.  Freight with F units, some of the cars and a black 
widow SP unit
> headed east dead in train.  Engine 35 was on the rear and at least 
two
> waycars.  Movies of the 1964 Aurora Cent. displays and the trip 
east with
> 5632 shot at Mc Lure Rd.
> My passenger train riding was a RT to Denver and a narrow gauge
> Honeymoon(had to start her out right) the next year was a return 
trip from
> Florida on Auto Train.  Being an Dispatcher most of my more recent 
trips
> have all been on the headend.  Kind of spoils the desire to ride the
> coaches.
> Last summer I went to a family reunion in Tenn. at my brother's.  
He was not
> around when Dad and I shot the movies. And one morning Dad now 84 
myself and
> brother went railfanning in the area.  Have to say it was the best 
part of
> the trip.  Then in Sept. I took my bride of 30 years(our first trip 
was for
> 25th)back to Hawaii for our second trip where I worked 2 days at the
> Hawaiian Railway Society and then a trip on the sugar cane train on 
Maui.
> Was too late to catch the Grove Plantion engines on Kauai(they run 
the same
> weekend as the HRS runs their parlor car((2nd weekend each month))).
> Will be at IRM for a couple of days after the Oregon Meet this 
spring
> sjh
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Stephen J. Levine" <sjl@p...>
> To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 4:39 PM
> Subject: [CBQ] Re: What we give our children
> 
> 
> > I do have to admit that it was probably both my mother and my 
father
> > who both sparked my interest in trains.  My dad used to take me to
> > visit my grandparents whenever he attended a meeting in Chicago 
and
> > we went by California Zephyr.  Later, by sharing information on 
what
> > trains we were riding, I got to love the NYC.
> >
> > Mom never really was happy that I was a railfan, until she was
> > reminded by a friend that she used to drag him down to see the 
trains
> > at Chicago Union Station.  We used to travel on the train when I 
was
> > very young and I believe that I sensed she was happy whenever we 
were
> > on the train, particularly on the Nickel Plate Road (this was 
when I
> > was a toddler and we lived in Cleveland but would visit our 
family in
> > Chicago).  With a mother passing along that sense of joy to a 
child,
> > that was how I believe I got hooked on trains.
> >
> > sjl
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >



 
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