I don't know if you can live two blocks from the train tracks
without becoming fascinated by them. Last Sunday, I heard a train horn that didn't sound like the usual horns (and I didn't even know I would notice the difference!). As the train came through, it had a distinctive chugging sound. M3 and I ran to our corner (which is definitely ours since we own both houses) and caught a glimpse of passenger cars! There are no passenger trains that come through our town. Our primary train buff (M4) was in the bathtub, which was a MAJOR bummer because M3 and I jumped in the car to see if we could catch up with the mystery train. Many other people had the same idea, so it was kinda cool (in a completely dorky way) to be part of this crowd following the smoke and the chugging. We missed it at a few crossovers, but several miles out of town this is what we saw:
A real steam engine!! There were guys sitting on the coal and waving at us...that was a little scary, because they were going fast! Don't know where it came from or where it was going, but I couldn't help but give an involuntary whoop when I saw it. Guess M4 has rubbed off on me a bit.
