sky12065
Conductor
While reading another post in another topic, the poster mentioned that he could see passing trains from his location. That got me thinking (sniff-sniff) and out of the burning smell came this poll!
As for myself, I was reminded that I grew up in a small village and my house was just one short block from a not too busy set of tracks that ran through a village street. The tracks ran mostly along a paved street but from the point I could view it left the paved street and began on ties! Many a times I walked the rails for two blocks of the rail. BTW, my wife and I are planning in the near future on moving back into that same house here more than 40 years after I left it! Sadly, the tracks are no longer there.
When I reached 20 years of age and I got married, I moved to the main street of the village, right next to the rails and would occasionally have to wait until the train passed my parked car before I could leave and even sometimes when I arrived home before I could park the car!
So, please feel free to share your story if you have one and care to share it?
p.s. I forgot to mention that as a child I spend a week each summer in Selkirk, NY directly across the street from a switching station of the New York Central Railroad! It awed me to be near the tracks when a train passed and it was impressive to get to see how they manually switched tracks from the station! (big levers that would either be pulled out or pushed in)
As for myself, I was reminded that I grew up in a small village and my house was just one short block from a not too busy set of tracks that ran through a village street. The tracks ran mostly along a paved street but from the point I could view it left the paved street and began on ties! Many a times I walked the rails for two blocks of the rail. BTW, my wife and I are planning in the near future on moving back into that same house here more than 40 years after I left it! Sadly, the tracks are no longer there.
When I reached 20 years of age and I got married, I moved to the main street of the village, right next to the rails and would occasionally have to wait until the train passed my parked car before I could leave and even sometimes when I arrived home before I could park the car!
So, please feel free to share your story if you have one and care to share it?
p.s. I forgot to mention that as a child I spend a week each summer in Selkirk, NY directly across the street from a switching station of the New York Central Railroad! It awed me to be near the tracks when a train passed and it was impressive to get to see how they manually switched tracks from the station! (big levers that would either be pulled out or pushed in)
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