I'd love to see B.B. As a young kid in a small town where a main RR line went through, I was always wowed by the huge cab forward locomotives. I think they were 4-8-8-2. We'd put pennies on the tracks for the trains to flatten. We'd also walk along the tracks and occasionally find packets of explosives. I understood they were used to strap to the tracks and detonated when the train ran over them as a signal of some kind to the operator. We'd find the along side the tracks as if they threw extras on the ground. We'd take them to school, tear them open, and sprinkle the greenish yellow explosive crumbs on the concrete or sometimes in the hallway. Kids would step on them & the crumbs would pop like pistol caps.
