@trumptrain posted:One time I even got a cab ride in a GP7. I got to blow the horn at the Rt 1 grade crossing too! A BIG deal for an 11 year old kid who loved trains since he was two year old.
Such a shame that these days, that'd never happen. When I was in my teens, I was driving past a business near the (I think it was Family Lines by then, had been SCL and don't think it was CSX yet) mainline which I knew had a spur but never saw anything switching there.
Anyway, I pulled over and watched and the engineer let me into the cab while he switched a car there, then back out to the derail. I walked back to my Suzuki Samurai (I must admit I miss that vehicle) about a quarter a mile away with a giant smile on my face. I have no photos of it as I had no camera with me, but the spur is either gone or too covered with weeds to make it out now (I did look the last time I was there).
