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I'll never forget the time I saw my Dad on the Elliston straight away. I saw him, he saw my red Vega, and they laid on the horn. They had a large consist of dead-in-tow engines headed to East End Shops from Williamston WV following the flood in 1977. If I had a time machine, that is a point in time I'd like to return to.

Hope NS doesn't see this video.  Engineer dances on carpet for not properly sounding horn at crossing.  Why there could have been an accident because he took his eyes and mind off the rails for that split second.  Given so many days off, written up in his file, has to be retrained in rule book. yada-yada, <sarcasm off>

Still though, priceless expression on kids face.

 That's great ! And to have it on video for his Dad to share with him

 

 The first time my wife took my youngest son to see me running a train was when he was around 11 years old.

 I was running an east bound pig train thru Ironton,Ohio, and she said he sorta run back a little and said,"Ain't Dad going a little fast ? "  . I was only going 40 mph ,but I guess to a young kid it seemed much  faster .

 

 

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My youngest son was born in 1980, When he was about the same age as the boy in the video, my wife took him out to the Merrick crossing west of Emporia, KS to watch me leave town on a Red Rock coal train. She held him up while I came by, and I'll never forget the look when the light bulb went off, just exactly like in the video. He just didn't get it before that, but he was still excited when I got home a day or two later.

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