on vacation this week I stayed several days in and around Lawrenceburg, (our fair city) and got to watch a GE actually run and switch on the same day. I miss seeing the gp50's here but this still beats widebodies, but only barely. I couldnt catch any good shots of the t19 but slipped on down to versailles and caught a few poor weather shots of the N&W gp9, very classy in my opinion. More importantly on this trip I saw two people, one was a volunteer at BGRM named Art. It was neat to get to talk to someone with such knowledge of older railroad history and then back in lawrenceburg I got to see my old childhood hero. I'll call him Mr. H for sake of anyonimity. I used to see him daily as a child, and he's nearly solely to blame for my career in railroading, he'd lost his crooked little pipe he carried back then but he still was Mr. H to me. with the depot being removed from town it didnt provide for such a nostalgic backdrop to our conversation like it did as a child, but hey , we got to both talk about railroading, and thats what it was all about. A childhood dream fulfilled.
"Mr. H" was also a major influence on my during my childhood (also being born and raised in Lawrenceburg) and was one of the big reasons I went to work for the RR back then. You wont find a better fellow.