Don’t exactly remember this, but the pic don’t lie of kindergarten trick/treat day. Not sure if I was suppost to be a train, engineer, or a masked hobo on a train, but still funny anyway.
…I have a photo of yours truely in my home made railroad engine when I was about 10 or 12…Wooden cab…metal barrel for boiler…large cans for steam cylinders…wagon wheels for the locomotive wheels…and track made from lumber my father had just replaced on a building project…canvas enclosing the engineers cab on the back…another can positioned vertically for the smoke stack…oh, yes a wooden V-shaped cow-catcher…Oh yes…and I believe I had my engineer’s hat on…
Two years ago, I made a steam loco costume for my then-5 year old. The stack was made out of a big-ole plastic cup. Every grandma thought Junior was so cute, they’d fill the “chimney” with candy! Big brothers had to continually trans-load the baggage.[:)] Oh!, and do the girlies like trains!!