Joe O -

Or your newspapers may be like mine. They report events only on the day they happen, which is usally too late to change plans to get there.

As a kid, we lived almost on the tracks, 6 houses down, and I crossed them every day on the way to school, but it was a local/spur line, with most of the traffic headed in and out of the Santa Fe maintenance shops. Traffic was irregular, but steam drivers were probably much more common than diesels through the mid 1950s, with about an even mix up to near the end of the 50s. I have no idea what models any of them were, since they usually scheduled them for peak traffic times (to maximize the traffic blockage - according to my adult relatives) and I was usually in school when they went by.

John