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what has been your favorite memory of trains while growing up?
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What does "Grown up" mean? Ain't gonna go! You can't make me!!!<BR><BR>I had grandparents who lived in Greene, Iowa and on one of my pappy's furloughs in either 1947 or 1948 (my parents, who are both still alive, by the way, can't remember exactly which and since I was only 7 or 8 I can't remember either) we went back for a visit; on our return to Riverside, Calif we stopped for a few hours in Ft Dodge, Iowa where an uncle of my pappy's lived. He worked for the Northwestern and on this particular day we went out to the railyards to see him; I am going to guess that he was a roundhouse hostler because when we located him he was in the process of moving a locomotive onto the turntable to turn it so it could be aligned to the proper stall in the roundhouse. Anyway, he took me up into the cab, we eased onto the turntable, we went around, and when we had lined up onto the proper track we eased off and then it all ended and I was back down on the ground. <BR><BR>The only pictures I have to remember that day and that experience are the pictures burned into my memory; I can't tell you what the number was on this engine or what its wheel arrangement was; I only remember being up in the cab of this huge, black monster which had, I am going to guess, just come in off of the road and was being hostled into the roundhouse for some kind of repairs.<BR><BR>This experience is almost sixty years in my past now - it was just a summer day at the roundhouse in Ft Dodge, Iowa but it was my day and it is vividly etched into my memory.
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