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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