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Train

The boys (mainly Caleb) have been fascinated with trains from a very early age. Fascinated. When they were little, we went to a train store every Saturday. They watched the model trains, they played with the toy trains. We stayed there for hours. The men there knew the boys by name. I remember one wife, was excited, after I had Jonas, and brought him in, so she could meet the newest train enthusiast. There was a store in the mall with toy trains. We went there at least once a week. Again, we were known by name. Caleb would play for hours with the trains. We were sad when they went out of business. A toy store opened in town, and had weekly train club days. They would dump tons of train accessories on the ground, and all of the kids would start building. When were out driving, and would see a train coming, we would drive to the crossing, to get a better view.

Oh we loved trains.

To this day, we still point out the trains. We drive over three tracks on the way to Manhattan. Several times, we have gotten to stop. Last weekend, we watched a car speed over the tracks, after the crossing bar things went down. We got to tell the boys NEVER do that! We had a front row seat for this train though.