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Re: [OM] Train watching

Subject: Re: [OM] Train watching
From: "John Hudson" <13874@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 21:15:01 -0300
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From: "Matthew Born" <mborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, 11 July, 2003 09:00 PM
Subject: [OM] Train watching


> 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.
>
> MB

My father in law, now deceased, told me years ago that his fellow students
at Cambridge took summer jobs in the 1930's as engineers for the British
railway companies driving the large passenger and freight trains.

jh



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