[Ron Wood]

Train tracks were part pf my early years also. I grew up in a small coal mining town in Pennsylvania and the coal trains ran on the longest narrow-gage railway in the world at that time (longer than the ones in China). My friends and I used to hop on the loaded coal cars as they were starting up to leave town and rode them down to the next small crossroads where the train slowed down for a curve. We would jump off and go fishing in a nearby stream. Once in a while we could hop on an empty returning train, but most of the time we had to hitch-hike back to town. After a time the railroad cops caught on to us and brought that pastime to an end.
Ron