While not about toy trains per se, perhaps the moderator would indulge me and allow this. I’m beginning to feel like I’ve found a family on this forum–people who love toy trains–and real trains, too–and who might appreciate the train-related scribbling of a fellow train “nut.”
“The Last of His Kind”
The old one had seen much come to pass during the preceding decades-buffalo and wolves were long gone, yet the deer, elk, and bighorn persisted, and rainbow hued fish still broke surface on icy streams. But everything must change and, as the gilded hills stood witness to roads and towns spreading over former hunting grounds, he understood, perhaps better than most, that nothing ever stays the same.
He was one of a kind, and still bore a formidable and distinguished presence. His sovereignty was as celebrated as that of presidents or kings, and so renowned was he, that his name and likeness became nothing short of iconic.
And so, pondering finality, ready to endure the torches of oblivion, he tempered his steel, confident that this struggle would be recorded: a page, a footnote in a saga passed down by his forebears. This would be the terminus of a breed-the last, great war chief of the Santa Fe.
Donna Pass