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Ed Vance

2024-08-09 20:10:15 UTC

Just to the point that I'll make a trip or two every summer to ride a
"dinner train" with preference given to those which are steam powered.
I grew up in a coal mining town in central Illinois. We had a population
of about 8000 and 4 separate railroads serving the town. Wabash, B&O,
Illinois Terminal (electric) and the C&IM (Chicago and Illinos Midland)
which had a roundhoue and car shops across from my grade school.
There are still a fair amount of us out there. To this day if I am dong
a long trip and not driving my car I'll take the train rather than the
silver bird. Trains don't fall out the sky and splatter you all over the
prairie or mountainside. Bv)=
... The caterpillar does the work, but the butterfly gets the publicity.
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Louisville has the Kentucky & Indiana RR Bridge, the old Pennsylvania RR Bridge
now is called (something like) the Louisville-Indiana Bridge.

I think the K&I RR changed names to Norfolk Southern.

Louisville & Nashville RR is called CSX now.

My brother worked at the L&N Shops in Louisville until he got an offer he
couldn't refuse - go to Huntington CSX Shop or find another job somewhere.
He (and many others) moved to West Virginia.

Me, I'm a River Rat.
Worked as a Lock and Dam Operator and saw Towboats, Steamboats and Pleasure
boats go through the Lock Chamber.

From there I could also see a Railroad Track running alongside the Interstate
highway (I-64), and if I looked up in the Air sometimes would see a Airliner,
Private Plane or Helicopter up there.

All Modes of Transportation.
Ed