Human interest newspiece. Hard to find one that makes a person look more eccentric than this.

http://www.winchesterstar.com/TheWinche ... _TRain.asp

And scroll down here for another good one. Brakemen on trains today have been eliminated since the 1980s because they now have air brakes and no longer have to scramble out of the cabooses parapet to tighten hand brakes. Must have been tough back in the 1960s and '70s, before they had them.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/c ... an+you+do+