Watching Trains With My Grandsons

Mary and I enjoy taking Zach and Mathew, my grandsons, train spotting or train watching. Less than 2 miles from my Indiana home is an east west train double track CSX line. In the small town of Teegarden Indiana is a Brethren church with a play ground and park in the back of the church property which borders the train tracks. We take the grand sons there to play on the swings and slide and wait for trains.
The boys obviously get very excited when a  train passes. I infected them with that enthusiasm. My youngest daughter Wendy, Mathew's mother and Zach's aunt, lived right next to the tracks for several years while the boys were toddlers. Whenever I was visiting, when a train passed, I'd pick one of them up and run for the back door shouting "Train!"
Mary has the bug now. Whenever we visit the family in Indiana, we HAVE to drive the last few miles to Wendy's house along 1st road, which parallels the CSX line for many mile. We never try to beat the train. We always wait for it.

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