Toy Trains

I'm sitting here drinking coffee, waiting for the kids to get up. From Shoshana's apartment you can see the rail yard at the terminus of the Red Line. I like watching the trains snake around the tight turns, their segmented bodies complying in turn to the form of the track like a silver snake. Sometimes two trains follow each other, amplifying the effect, sometimes there are trains going in opposite directions. I haven't quite figured out the layout of the yard, how the flow works. I particularly like it when a train comes down the long sloping s-curve ramp that is, I believe, the southbound arm of the Purple Line heading toward the city from points north. They come in fast then slow to a crawl.

I always learn so much when I come up here. This time I learned about transporting fishes and coral, and in more detail how you ship a Beluga Whale. They go Fed Ex. Of course it's more complicated than that! I hear about these things over the phone but get so much more out of a face to face conversation.