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Good Morning! I did not catch much sleep last night. I felt like being in the movies, seeing a film about my life with my Dad. He was the one who infected me with the train virus by taking us kids to the train station on weekends, escaping my Mom´s weekend house cleaning actions. He taught me all he knew about trains and this was an awful lot. He had been a train buff from his childhood days, riding his bike to the next gate keeper´s shack to help him raise or lower the gates, waving at the engineer - instead of going to school. He often skipped a train on the way home, just to watch the Berlin - Breslau train to pass by, headed by one of those streamlined class 01.10 Pacifics. At the age of 17, during the war, he was commissioned to Deutsche Reichsbahn to replace the station master of Penzig train station, who was send off to war. When the Red Army was closing in on "his" station, he locked it, took a sheet of cardboard and wrote on it "temporarily closed". The station was completely destroyed and was never opened up again, as the town ceased to exist.After the war, in late 1945, he saw an ad placed in "Stars and Stripes" - a Japanese young college student seeking contact to railroad fans all over the world. He answered it, and a lifelong friendship with Dr. Setsuo Yokomizo from Niigata began. The two actually met a few years back and it was like a family reunion. I am so sad that his last days were burdened with unnecessary hardship, maybe passing away was his way of finding the peace he so desperately needed. Thank you so much for your kind words.
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