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Teenager gets to play trains in Chicago

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Oct 25th 2008 4:00PM

It appears that three Metra engineers in Chicago are under investigation for allowing a teenager into the cabs of locomotives and even operate trains. The Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation, as Metra is formally known, operates ...
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Utah Phillips -- Old buddy, goodnight

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted May 28th 2008 4:03PM

If you've got a kid who is as into trains as my Jared is, then you undoubtedly listen to a fair bit of Utah Phillips' music. His version of the Wabash Cannonball and Daddy, What's a Train are two of Jared's favorites. I was lucky enough to see him in ...
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Visiting the railroad museum

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Feb 24th 2008 5:03PM

One of the things we did while in the Lake Tahoe area was visit the Nevada State Railroad museum. Given Jared's chosen career path, I'm ashamed to say that this is the first time we've been to a railroad museum. We haven't even been to the California ...
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Career Choices

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Feb 16th 2008 11:57AM

When I was in high school, I had grand plans to become an electronics engineer. I was going to go to the University of Illinois for my undergraduate degree, followed by graduate work at MIT. I was going to design computers and robots and all manner ...
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Playing trains -- for real

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jan 11th 2008 11:28AM

We are very lucky in that there is a local model railroading club with a huge train layout that allows kids (big and small) to come watch their trains rolling about. We can run over there any Saturday and the kids can watch the trains climb mountains ...
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Teens pull woman from tracks seconds before train destroys her car

by Jonathon Morgan, Posted Sep 10th 2007 3:30PM

Thomas Foust is one brave kid. When he saw the driver in front of him turn onto the train tracks (apparently confusing them for a street), he knew he had to act quickly. Despite the fact that he and his friends had seen the lights of an oncoming ...
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Product Recall: Thomas & Friends(tm) Wooden Railway Toys

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jun 14th 2007 12:27PM

RC2 Corp., of Oak Brook, Illinois, in cooperation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, is voluntarily recalling various Thomas & Friends(tm) Wooden Railway toys. It seems the dread lead strikes even such high-end brands as Thomas -- these ...
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