quote:Well, as a kid I did a lot of walking tracks,
Maybe a lot of people here don't realize that walking along the right of way was a common thing. Especially, in the mountains of West Virginia, where unless you had wings the closest distance between two points was along the railroad tracks.
That point was made brutally clear one day when our "detour" crew departed Hinton, WVa. and had to drive fifty miles by road to get to a point twenty one rail miles away to where our inbound train had run out of time!
