| Show locomotive EVER THE CENTER OF BOYHOOD DREAMS in the lexicon of youth there la Is one word that fires the imagination locomotive even though the airplane has corae come to capture the fancy of 0 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 country there is hardly a boy in america who at some time has not looted looked with immeasurable pride on a railroad engine whether it be standing stand iari in the yards or in a railroad station n or plowing its way across country in Ms lils mind the average boy sees himself sitting at the cab window fondling the cord attached to the whistle pulling down own the throttle A glamorous figure the railroad engineer always has been lind probably always will be a bero to the growing boy there Is a reason the man who controls a railroad engine liaa has in his hands the power to move worlds A train sliding over the countryside in the twilight or the early dawn of day has hag aboard all the boyhood fancies on the side of the road whether he be standing in a corn field flold or on a sidewalk watching a train go by the average boy dreams of fardis far dis tant places where the train la is go ins ing As it speeds away the mighty iron engine becomes a mythical mc messenger q carrying his thoughts so the engine has become syra syma bolic of 0 mighty deeds and great ad 23 dentures en tures in tic the heart of american america boyhood ironi from time american boys have ficeri been stirred by the heroism of 0 railroad engineers who wh stopped their trains on of the th nery verge of 0 disaster an and ot of track men atho went ent out ot of their way to save lives but always it has been the engineer and the engine that occupy first thoughts with the boys always the engine will be beliveo in a country that the en engine gnp belld cultivate washington post |
