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>As a kid, wandering through an Erie-Lackawanna yard with my dad, an engineer
>asked me if I'd ever been on an engine. "Sure," I said. Not to be outdone,
>he asked if I'd ever DRIVEN one. (I think I was about 10.) He actually let
>me move the thing about 50 yards. What are the odds that would happen today?
>Many of my father's shots are wonderfully intimate. As you mentioned, those
>days are long gone. At least in my neck of the woods.
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>MB
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My grandfather was an engineer on the Illinois Central. I remember as a
kid going to the freight yard and riding in one of the steam locomotives
that they still used as switch engines. I liked everything but the
whistle. That thing was painful!
Mike
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