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Incredibly, one thing led to another and before I knew it I was sitting in the engineer’s cab at the front of the train.
My dad's uncle used to work the mail car on the old Milwaukee Road. I must have been in the 5th grade and got to ride along one night from 10 pm till about 4 am. It was a freight train with the mail car and caboose at the end. For one 2 hour stretch I got to ride up front with the engineer and blow the whistle at the crossings  . One more .
I drove through there a few years ago on a vacation, the tracks have become a bicycle/snowmobile trail.
I like trains & still wave at them...
JH
"It's not what I say that's important, it's what you hear" Red Auerbach
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