trains! choo chooooo!! trains!

Cal is mildly obsessed with trains. We can see a track from our house and he gets pretty happy when they go by. I taught him to call the trains Thomas, like Thomas the Tank Engine, but Sam didn't know I'd done that and she thought we were letting him watch too much TV. So I stopped doing that.

We were told about the Cambridge Model Engineering Society, which is a group of train enthusiasts who among other things make small, working steam engines. Once a month they give rides around a track out near where we used to live, so we went and checked it out.
It was pretty cool, most of the engines burn coal and seeing the older guys dressed up like engineers hammering little pieces of coal to burn was fun.
It was a beautiful day, and it was a hit with Calvin. We bought tickets for six rides and took turns taking him on the trains, probably a five minute ride or so. He was freaking out from excitement as soon as we parked the car, and as soon as he got off the train he was rushing to get on the next one. Some pictures:
That last one is when it was time to go and he really wanted to go on another train. We laughed and laughed, and then grabbed him away from the fence and rushed to the car as he plaintively whimpered 'choo chooo' over and over.