One of my students mentioned in class the fact that an old timey locomotive would be arriving in town from Bristol, TN/VA. My husband received even more info -- it would arrive near the Glencoe Museum in town!
Well, partly yes. I had taken my temperature a second time (the first time, around 9 AM, it said 100.2 degrees)and it was now down to 98.2 and so we went. We arrived close to noon at the road behind the museum. We heard the plaintive "waaaa, waaaa" of the train whistle and it disppeared. But someone walking back from the sighting said we could still see it, and headed to the old main street depot. We parked a bit past the old depot area as the parking lot was already packed. There were brownies out selling cookies, a customed Yogurt yelling to come to the yogurt shop, and some people selling food and jewelry and book marks at a makeshift farmer's market. WE pulled into the parking lot generally reserved for the red college commuter buses, which were also near the depot area, and got out.
We took a lot of pictures, me with the digital camera and Frank with his ipad, of the front of the train, the old timey black engine with the white and also grayish smoke/steam coming out, a symbol of a bygone era. Behind it were two modern diesel engines pushing the old locomotive, and a string of Norfolk Southern wine colored passenger cars. I'll bet they haven't been regularly used since the seventies. But gas is so expensive. Should we go back to using trains?
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