One of the sounds I like is almost a sad and lonesome one. A train whistle in the night. I think it sounds lonely because my mind immediately conjures the scene of wayward travelers trying to board the train when it’s slowly gaining speed out of town. I picture downtrodden individuals around a fire, waiting for the ride to a hope-filled destination. Traveling ever on, looking for a different, better life, they board the rails, searching.
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The Bag Lady 
The locomotive in lower graphic is decked out in CN insignia. Canadian National. As a railway company they were once owned by Canadian government. Which meant any debts piled up by the Company, were paid off by the Canadian government of the day. I digress. The loco. is a GM SD40. Many of those locos had a 3 tone air horn. A few even, 4 tones. While operating them. I would play with the horn. Just a small amount of air would cause the first horn to open, then so on, one could make them really sing. Especially in the valley’s of southern British Columbia. … hehe, Cheers Jamie
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That’s fascinating! Were you what we call a conductor? Tell me more☺️
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I was a trainman, conductor, yardman, yard foreman and locomotive engineer until 1993. Also briefly worked as a Carman helper.. The system was mostly seniority based. If I couldn’t hold a job as Locomotive engineer, I would be set back, to whatever my seniority could hold. That was with CP Rail. in southern British Columbia. Cheers Jamie
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Cool! So happy to know that. A lot of responsibility in that line of work.
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You’re right. Not only with the public but also my co-workers. Any mistake could be costly. Which became one reason, for taking my buyout in the end. The biggest reason for taking it, was my ex. She didn’t like me being away from home and working strange hours. It became an obsession for her. … like other things. Cheers Jamie
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I like trains write more stories about trains.
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Are you giving me the business because of the truck stories? 😛
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Well yeah, but it’s true, I like trains. I drove a steam train. Write stories about them
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You stinker! You never mentioned that! Now I expect to read some of those stories!
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Not much of a story, I only drove it once. Did a two hour course on how to drive, paid a sum of money and took a steam train with passengers for a 40 minute drive.
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Why only once? Didn’t like it?
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It was a paid for experience on holiday, ‘come and pay us money and we’ll teach you how to drive a steam train with passengers.’
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John enjoyed seeing this post 😉
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