This is a great series of three photos of a conductor interacting with a young boy with an apparent interest in the big diesel(s). Credit to the Norfolk & Western Historical Society's web cam in Roanoke, VA.
Let's let the pictures speak for themselves
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I love situations like this one. A little boy (or girl!) marveling at one of the biggest, heaviest, loudest thing in the world.
This video is my favorite:
A young boy seeing his dad, a Norfolk Southern engineer, driving a train. Pure Joy.
Cool. Somewhere I've got a few shots of my toddler daughter near the same spot in Roanoke, many years ago.
Railfan Brody posted:I love situations like this one. A little boy (or girl!) marveling at one of the biggest, heaviest, loudest thing in the world.
This video is my favorite:
A young boy seeing his dad, a Norfolk Southern engineer, driving a train. Pure Joy.
This is an excellent modern day representation of the classic "Engineer waves to kid from steam engine photos"
That is sooo cool!! Reminds me of when I would see a passing train with my toddler daughter at the time, she would get so excited, wave to the engineer, who would always wave back, and me I would stand there trying to contain myself and just look normal, yet on the inside I was just as giddie as my daughter as those gigantic engines passed by.
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