[Constitutions Grandchild]

They may be right. We lost our Union/Pacific narrow gauge track a year or two ago. Ours switched the Southern tracks and it doesn’t pass near our house anymore. Kirkwood, Missour, is a big railroad town. Cars used to park all day long just to watch trains go by.

Even though the Southern Tracks are a half a mile away, when it went through you could hear that whistle in the distance. I guess the locomotive and cars are now a permanent fixture at the Museum of Transportation out in DesPeres. Sad, but I don’t think I’ll get to hear it pass again.

[abb]

Here ya go.

http://www.crosby-steam.com/csw.htm

[seemoAR]

The reader railroad was also known as the Possom Trot. I have rode on it several times. The passenger cars are open and all the black smoke from the engine seems to go into the cars. It wasn't a good idea to wear white clothes.
The last time I rode it was in the hot dry summer time and sparks from the smokestack would blow into the woods. I think we must have stopped 3 times to put out small woods fires before they could grow. ;0)