Show locomotive EVER THE CENTER OF BOYHOOD DREAMS in the lexicon of youth there Is one word that fires the imagination locomotive even though tile the airplane has come to capture the fancy of youth the railroad engine still maintains its place in the affections of young boys love of the railroad engine goes back to the dim past of this c country there Is hardly a boy in america who at some time has not looked with immeasurable pride on a railroad engine whether it be standing in the yards or in a railroad station or plowing its way across country in tits Ms mind the average boy sees himself sitting silting at the cab window fondling the cord attached to the whistle putting pulling down the throttle A glamorous figure the railroad engineer always has been be enand and ably always will be a hero to the growing boy boi there is a reason the ninn man who controls a rall railroad roAd engine lias has in tits his hands the power to move moo worlds A train gliding over oer the country side in the twilight or the early carli dawn of lay day has aboard all the boyhood fan fancies fanales cles on oil the side of the road whether he be standing in a corn field or on a sidewalk watching a train go by the average boy dreams of far als tant places where the train Is go in As it speeds away anway the mighty lion fron engine becomes a mythical mos csenger carrying tits his thoughts so the engine lias has become symbolic of mighty deeds and great arl ad dentures en tures in tip the heart of american boyhood from time american boys bos have been stirred by the heroism of railroad engineers who vo stopped their trains on the very cry verge erge of disaster and of track men who lio went ent out of their way to sine save lives but always it has been the eng engineer incer and the engine that oc cupy first thoughts with the boys bois always the engine will be beloved in a country that the engine helped cultivate cult liate washington post |