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Jay, I think for those of us into passenger service, most of us grew up with it in one way or another. I can tell you, but don't tell anyone else here that when I first heard that many modellers were into freight trains, I thought they'd lost their rocker. Passenger trains are beautiful, exciting, filled with promise and allure to other parts of the land. In a smaller town, the station starts to come alive an hour before it arrives. Then the grand entrance, people getting off, people getting on, people in uniforms, carts whisking about, maybe a new crew change, heck.. if you lived in Jasper Alberta, maybe a bear to greet the tourists. Then the sad moment as the train leaves. And maybe the engineer waves at me, and sometimes it is my grandfather. Passengers wave at me, and I back at them. The porter stands in the vestibule, closing up the door and window. And then finally the parlour car pulls past you, until the next time. In a couple of the CN Sig mags, I have seen pictures of me since I practically lived at the train station in 1956-57.
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