HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Daylight 120503Steam-powered train
A young boy was cycling near
the railroad tracks in downtown
Hearne on Thursday when he
noticed a large crowd at ihe old
railroad depot.
When someone Iold him that
the 300 people wailing there had
come to see a steam-powered
locomotive chug by, the youngster
laughed.
"That's all they're doing?" he
asked.
Poor fellow.
He didn't realize that the train
about to whistle into town was
much more than an drdinary train
to ~nany people.
The Daylight. a refurbished
t940s locomotive, was making its
of the
shrieking
fashioned
Some
dreams
engineer. Others remembereddays
of football road trips to Austin or
they
same
.depm was.
' of
ghboring
area
there
of Hearne
Station
Eagle phoIo by [)axe McDermand
area residents
"That old train helped me
remember a lot of things about the
old place," he said.
And the Daylight did nothing to
tarnish that special feeling,
The train's bright red, orange
and black colors were polished to
perfection and. the body of the
Texas
said
go{
a
here {at A&M} and the
first words I heard when l[ got off
was, 'Fish, pick up your trunk.
and march to the barracks.' Those
were fun times."
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