We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us. ∼Henry David Thoreau In the late 1970’s I attended a one-month technical seminar in downtown Chicago. I was working as an engineer for a manufacturing company in Northern Illinois, and they had bought into a new technology which […]
Category: Train Stories
Railroad iron is a magician’s rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water. ∼ Ralph Waldo Emerson Ann and I recently took a railway trip to the Pacific Northwest. We visited our friends George Dooley and his wife, Diane Neubert who […]
Our digs Trains illicit magical journeys, through enchanted forests, fields of golden wheat waving in the sun, and bridges over emerald streams and rivers. ∼Joe For a few years back in the day, I shared an apartment with my friend Don Booth. Don, was the brother of my best friend […]
Show me an alley, show me a train. Show me a hobo who sleeps out in the rain. And I’ll show you a young man with many reasons why, there but for fortune, go you or I. ~ Phil Ochs I had quite a few jobs when I was a kid, delivering […]