What a beautiful description of your new life! As you know, a track ran along the east border of our property. It wasn't a busy track with a regular schedule, but trains would run down to Emporia on it to get grain from the elevator there, and I thought they were pretty cozy and romantic. They would generally back down there, and the sound would be a sort of steady purring sound. On the return trip, one or more engines would be pulling the train and would whistle at the various crossings. Often, if it would take awhile to fill the cars, the engines would travel back to Anderson and would travel much faster. Then, in an anything from a few hours to a day or so, the engines would return to hook onto the train and pull it back to the rail yard that was just west of the Main Street tunnel.

There's so much that I can write about those trains as well as the trains and tracks that once were and/or still are a part of Anderson/Madison County.