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B SmithOGR Forum Member

My father loved to travel by train and I spent quite lot of time on long-distance trains as a little boy, traveling from Tucson to Bangor, ME (and back) each summer in the 1950s via SP/RI/NYC (The New England States) and Boston and Maine (Flying Yankee) with my parents. Diner in the diner and waking up in a sleeping car bedroom and all the smells and sounds of trains just got into my blood. I still live in Tucson where the UP's double main provides a lot of freight trains to watch, a particularly good vantage point being the summit (Mescal) between Tucson and Benson, where the old El Paso and Southwestern used to cross over the SP to go south to Douglas and El Paso. Now the EP&SW line to Mescal serves as part of UP's double main between there and Tucson.

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