Thank God I Didn’t Become A Train Engineer

I’ve loved trains since I was a little kid. I’ve always had a train set(the title pic is from my current layout), I hung out by the tracks a rail served industry in my hometown, getting cab and caboose rides. As a ten year old, I wrote to the Santa Fe Railway and got a tour of their downtown Chicago headquarters. I know many people in the industry now, and have known people in the rail industry from the very bottom to CEOs of Class I railroads. I’ve gotten cab rides in steam engines, and I can look at any train, tell you the horsepower of the locomotives, their relative age, and identify any freight car today and what it hauls. I know more about railroads than 95% of the public. <a href="https://medium.com/@ryan79z28/thank-god-i-didnt-become-a-train-engineer-48ef28460733">Read More</a>