On May 27, 2013, at 12:20 PM, Paul Sorenson wrote: > For my first 10 years we lived about half a block from the railroad tracks > and depot. Boy, does that bring back memories from some 60 years ago. The > chuffing as it gets louder when the train approaches...and the lonesome > sounding whistle as I lay in my bed late at night.
For a while my grandparents had a little grocery, the front porch of which was not more than 25 yards from the track. I used to go stand on it while a freight train went through at top speed. There was a lot more than "chuffing" to that experience. The ground shook under my feet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA eew...@bellsouth.net "A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." - Thomas Mann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
