Most everyone that knows me knows that I LOVE trains. Somehow I will bring trains into a conversation.
Unfortunately, while we do live near the KCS mainline into Dallas, there are only 4 trains daily, and most of them pass during the night. We do miss Lafayette and the number of trains that passed there.
Donna and I participated in National Train Day on 12 May 2012 at Dallas Union Station, representing Operation Lifesaver, meeting about 150 people.
No, that's not a giant in the background. This was part of a modular N scale model railroad display that was brought in by a local model train group. I wish, ours are still packed up in totes in our storage unit.