| Posted by FSWood on May 4, 2020 | |
Sand Patch - location brings to mind a thing involving simulated trains a couple decades ago. I was visiting my parents and I wasn't yet in to simulators but Dad had done flight simulators for ages and had recently gotten Microsoft Train Simulator and suggested I might enjoy it & it had Chessie System in it. So, we went downstairs to family room and he got me going then went back upstairs. A lashup of SD9s climbing Sand Patch was soon running. "Hey, Dad's got a great sound system on this thing, I'm loving those 567s! Been a long time since I've heard those in real life." It wasn't overly long after that before Dad came back downstairs, "Uh, son, I'm glad you are enjoying the computer, but the silverware is vibrating on the kitchen table." Oh! Sorry. Hey Dad, did you know you have a really great sound system on this thing?! Those days are gone, Dad is in a nursing home, and my cat who is Not named Chessie is sitting here looking at me and apparently wondering what I'm laughing about. Back to a couple decades ago, it wasn't long after that that he went railfanning in Kansas City with me. And then he eventually bought me a PC and gave me Trainz 2006. He'd never been a railfan until after getting MS Train Sim for something to do when his health wasn't up to the flight sims. And I'd never been a computer fan until he gave me the computer. Yep, it's all my parents fault, Mom got me hooked on trains when we rode Santa Fe while Dad was out a sea and then years later sometime in late 1970s she and Dad gave me a Chessie System train set. A few years ago Dad got us both subscriptions to Trains Magazine. Would all that have happened if Chessie System had never existed, who knows; but all those happenings happened (except for ATSF) simply because the Chessie climbed a hill, and hauled coal to the ocean, and dared to decorate 200 ton brutal heavy machinery with the profile of a sleeping fragile kitten, and I love it, and my parents too. Why am I remembering all this right now? I don't know. Will it get published here? That too is unknown. But the times and the memories exist and are enjoyed, that is enough, I am pleased. The cat, however, remains a bit baffled. That too is okay.
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Great Commentary !
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