Sounds like your childhood was quite a lot of fun!
Wow, really? It feels weird for me to say I'd done it a year ago.
We don't really have those around here. Which is probably because I live in a rather small town outside of the city, but even IN the city, I've never seen any. Must not be a big Ohio thing. We have a few railroad tracks but the only trains you ever see are old ones. Not that they aren't pretty damn cool anyway! Usually when we pass over this overpass that's above one of the tracks, I look both ways to see if I can see a train. And when I went to my first job interview a couple weeks ago, we got interrupted by a train at one of the rail road crossings!
I hope so too. I saw a brilliant sunset last night that I would have loved to have made stock icons out of, but I didn't have a camera to take the pictures. The sky was kind of a greenish-blue and the clouds were sort of tinted yellow. It was definitely the prettiest sunset I'd seen this year! Though I tend to like sunrises better, when the sky looks all cotton candy like.