This story lightens my heart quite a bit. My family's legacy with the LVRR - my grandfather spent his life working for them, including driving trains, especially troop trains during the Second World War - keeps a string tied to the railroad.
Any good histories of the railroad and its social and cultural impact on the US out there, I'm taking requests for titles.
In the photo, Robert Crocker, the gentleman at the far left, was my youth leader at church. Far too long since he and his wife Valerie and I have sat and talked and laughed. . .
