The Train
Posted on Jul 24, 2007
When my younger brother and I were about 9 and 10 we had gone out the back door of the cafe our folks owned, just as a train pulled in, we ran to the engine as the guys came off of it and asked if it would be ok to climb into the engine to look at it! They said "yes, but don't touch anything!!" Really dumb on their part - how does one look at things....by touch!! We played around in it for maybe five minutes, and I believe it was Darrell who pulled a lever back, the train lurched backwards and I yelled, "put it back forward!" he did 'hehe' but all the way forward! the wheels made a screeching sound and the train lurched ahead. We bid it farewell, bailed out and ran home and hid under the bed. When the engineers came back they found their train gone and us too! They immediately assumed we were still on it, but if they thought we might bring it back...they were in for a surprise!! They got hold of the sheriff and learning the train was moving forward, all headed for Hot Springs watching for it all the way, they did get ahead of it, but couldn't get aboard at Hot Springs, so called ahead to Chadron Neb. to get a team there to catch it, and they were able to as Neb. is flat land and they could drive along side it and get a man aboard. It was only much later that we had learned all this, and were quite amazed that we didn't get in trouble, but found out the sheriff didn't have much use for the stupidity of the engineers in giving us permission to go aboard un -attended!! Ahhh a day in the life!!!
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