Man. LH, I gotta agree with you about the trains. I used to live on Fulton Hill in Richmond, Va. and down in Fulton Bottom were the train yards. Well, a lot of folks don't appreciate train yards or even understand what goes on in 'em. But in a big city, that's where all the cars are sorted out for the next day. Some are empty that need to be pushed around the city to be filled and others are filled and need to be pushed around the city to where they will be emptied. Well, this work occurs at night. Yep, thetre is an entire nocternal population that does this every night. The use *yard engines* and push and pull cars and get 'em lined up so that during the day these same yard engines do their thing and get 'em all where they need to be.

Well, now there's something about the sound of these yard engines straining to push and pull tons and tons. And there's something about the sound of a car coupling. It is very exciting as tons meet tons and sometimnes when the train is going too fast, like 3 mph instead of 2.5 mph, there is a violent collison and it rocks the entire area. Like real cool.

One would think that this would be a terrible thying to get used to but it's very soothing. I lived up there for 8 years of my life with them trains crashing and banging all night long and never slept better. When I moved, I couldn't sleep well for weeks...

Something about trains. Yeah...

Bobert