Circa 1924 060 Switcher Locomotive on the Kokosing Gap Trail-
a window into the past, preserved for us today.
My wife and I, on a visit to central Ohio in early July, were taken to visit the 060 by friends. At one time I was a marine steam engineer, and am drawn to these engines.
But the big steam locomotives terrified me when I was a little kid: alive with smoke and hissing and chuffing. When they spun their wheels getting underway, the ground shook for miles around.
The thunder of trains brings me back to those warm, midsummer days in the Midwest of my childhood.
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