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[QUOTE]Originally posted by bill haithcoat: [QB] I was taken on the Dixie Flagler overnight from Chattanoga,TN to Daytona Beach Fl at age 3, in 1947. Memory is very dim, I think I remember the streamlined steam locomotive in the station in Chattanooga carrying on as only steam engines can.(the diesel at that time would have just been FEC from Jax to MIA) And going around corners during the night. And ships in Jacksonville. Apparently I enjoyed all the sensations,etc mother said I kept her awake all night babbling about things. My sister was with us, she was age 12, thus nine years older than I. Those nine years make a huge difference. She was restless and apparently walked me from one end of the train to another several times.She had been on trains before So I think she told me what things were, and I guess reasonably correctly. People began noticing us (we had bibs on us with our names on them) and they started calling us by name and telling us how glad they were to see us. (over and over again) It does not take a degree in psychology so see that I thought I was being "rewarded" for this strange new past time of walking through a train. The rest is, as they say, history. My "condition" is apparently permanet,no cure for railroad mania in sight for me. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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