The pictures were great, I loved them!!

I used to be a big railroad buff back in High School. I lived in a little town that was on the Rock Island main line here in Kansas and I could tell you what the make and model was of ANY locomotive I saw.

Me and a buddy of mine would make a bee line for the tracks whenever we heard a train coming through. A lot of times, we would catch a ride on the locomotive when the trains would stop to switch out cars at the grain elevator. We were both going to be engineers when "we grew up".

To make a long story short, I ended up building airplanes & my buddy is an engineer for the BNSF Railroad (last I heard).

Cheers!

Bill R-4581