First Train Ride

December 2, 2012

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Bob sent in this memory:

“Probably about 1947 my mother wanted to visit a friend in a neighboring town, and it was decided that my brothers and I would ride the train with my mother, spend the day with her friend, and my father would follow in the car after he got off work. We arrived at the station, and since my brothers were a couple of years younger than I my mother took them on board while my father and I walked the length of the train looking and watching. My father sold life insurance and knew practically everyone in town, and he and the engineer were friends. My father lifted me up to the engineer who lifted me and pulled me in thru the window (maybe it was the door) of the ACL F7. I got a tour of the power plant, got to sit in his seat, pull the cord for a short toot on the whistle and push the throttle forward and rev the motor, not too much. But the clock was moving, I was lifted out thru the window/door to my father’s arms, and off we went to join my brothers and mother who was fit to tied because she heard the whistle blow and motors rev and knew that the train was going to leave the station and me behind. And what would my father do with me all day long?”

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