Per the “children seeing trains” discussion: I did an inventory and realize that I have never lived more than 2 miles from a train line. I’m pretty sure that’s true. Anyway, that meant that raising our kids in Indiana, Virginia, and Kentucky we didn’t just see trains, in the case of our rental homes in Virginia and Kentucky, we felt them every day and night. We often went to the tracks to watch them pass (and like so many families, we gathered Thomas the Tank Engine stuff when we could get ahold of it for cheap so that the kids could build their own). There’s a track about 1/2 mile from us now, but it seems it’s rarely used. It doesn’t matter, I doubt I could get my teenaged sons excited to see the trains these days.