Understanding how this all works

Yes, attachments welcome. Also please show your progress on 3 rail layout on the appropriate forum.

Steve

Write about your railroad life all you want to! That's what this forum is for.

I will look forward to reading your stories.

Sounds like you and your grandson are embarking on a fun project.

Why not put it together in book form?  There are lots of first person accounts of working for the railroads but there's always room for one more.  It wouldn't have to be hardback - many are paperback only.  I have over 150 first person accounts of working on the railroad. While I don't claim to have everything in this genre I do think what I have is fairly comprehensive. A check of the titles and railroads on which the author worked indicates I only have one for the B&O by Pratt published back in 1978.

  I think I have a couple of stand alone recollections of working for the C&O in some of the first person account collections that cover railroading in general but I don't have a book by anyone who worked on the C&O that is specifically about their time on that road...so if what I have is a reasonable sampling of the field I, for one, would welcome a first person account of working for the C&O.

There's a thread on the Real Trains Forum, entitled "Tell Us A Good Story" (started 2 years ago by Forumite Rob Leese) on which several of us have posted good railroad stories.  It would be great to see yours added to the other posts, keeping the true stories of the rail all together.

I'll make you a deal:  If you'll post one there, I will do the same.

It seems there are many forum members who were once or are currently marked up railroaders.  You must know we like to hear stories.  Oh yes.

P.S.  this isn't me, but he was a "frequent flyer" in my UTU timebook.