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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bob from MA: [QB] My earliest train memories involving walking with my father to a bridge over the Boston & Albany tracks in Worcester, Mass. and waiting for a train to come by. As the train passed under us, we would stand to the side to avoid the smoke belching out of the locomotive. Vacationing in Maine in the late 1930's, I would watch the famous Flying Yankee pass by. We have pictures and even part of a 16 mm movie that show it at the Temple Ave. grade crossing in Ocean Park (part of Old Orchard Beach) around 1940. I went to college at Clark University in Worcester, only about 2 miles from my home. When doing graduate work at the University of Maine, I rode the train from Boston to Bangor a few times. I remember one time standing in Orono waiting for a bus to Bangor one morning when it was 25 below zero. Riding south on the train, I looked out over a snow-covered landscape with smoke curling up from lonely farmhouses. After that, I had little connection with trains until we discovered the joys of Amtrak around 1986. I have never been much interested in sports, so I can't add anything with regard to that. (I did watch the World Series this year, however!) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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