[okie01]

The money was good too. I made enough each summer to pay for about sixty percent of the years’s college costs at a Big Ten university.

I was in college a little over fifty years ago. I never worked for the railroad, but had a good friend who did.

And damned if he didn't experience a head-on collision himself, out in Western Oklahoma. Got the thrill of hitting the silk at about 30 mph and came away with a dislocated hip.

[libstripper]

Never had that happen, but I was in the cab when we hit a car while going about 5 mph. We were on one side of an overpass and the car’s driver came up and over from the other side without looking and we hit the vehicle. Vehicle was probably totaled, but driver wasn’t injured.