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[:p] I grew up in Cayce, Kentucky where "Casey" Jones got his nickname and his first train ride, but it wasn't on the IC. I grew up waving at GM&O engineers as they whizzed past our one little store. <br /> On Saturday's we "went to town", Fulton, KY, where we watched the City of New Orleans rumble through town about 4:15 in the afternoon. On the northwest corner of town there was a huge ice packing plant where 100 car IC banana trains used to stop to be iced down and broken up for delivery all over the U.S. At one time every banana that came to the U.S. thorugh New Orleans came through Fulton to be iced prior to dispersal. That's why Fulton calls itself "The Banana Capital of the U.S..". The Illinois Central had a huge facility there as well. The IC tracks are still there, but the yard was abandoned in the late 1970's <br /> Thanks for the chacne to "go home" again! <br /> <br />Larry Pursell
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