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To: Ish who wrote (18510)	3/7/1999 2:03:00 PM
From: DScottD	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

<You remember the Peabody Coal trains that used to go through Normal about 2 minutes before curfew?> Yes I do. I lived in Watterson Towers for 2 years and the tracks were just down the street from there. The CNW trains used to rattle our house at about 6 in the morning and 3 or so in the afternoon. The highlight of the day was when I'd be home from school in time to catch a wave from the locomotive engineer and the guy in the caboose. Every once in a while the train would stop to drop off a shipment of something or other at the factory down the street and the caboose guy would let me go in for a few minutes. They wouldn't do that today because of the liability concerns. Most of the men on my mom's side of the family worked for the railroad at one time or another. She recalls fondly the times when her great uncle was a conductor on the old Great Western passenger trains and she'd take a day trip to Chicago with him.