Train loving Dog

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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A friend sent me this story and it spoke to me. If reincarnation is real, I hope this is my future. I am like Boji very happy when I am traveling on transit vehicles.

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/10/travel/dog-istanbul-boji-cnnphotos/

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https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/10/travel/dog-istanbul-boji-cnnphotos/

I lit it up for you. Good story!

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Istanbul not only cares for it’s stray animals but lets them stray. Reminded me of our very own Ownie the Mail Dog. I’ve taken friends to the Smithsonian Postal Museum’s Ownie exhibit.

“A Pittsburgh Album” has a picture of “little Jimmy Crawford” in the motorman’s seat. He apparently was somewhat of a Pittsburgh Railways mascot and wanted to to be a motorman when he grew up. I wonder if that happened.

Rick

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There is a movie about an Australian dog that did much the same travel in the Pilbara, riding on the Hamersley Iron ore trains and local buses and getting rides in cars. The movie is called “Red Dog”. This occurred while I was working in the Pilbara, and I recall being told about the dog but I never saw it (since I worked for Mt Newman Mining and only occasionally vsied Hamersley Iron.

I came across a dog that liked to watch trains. This was a big dog, that looked like a Boxer breed but was black. He would sit on a pedestrian brige over the line and when he heard a train coming, he would point towards it. When the train arrived, he would run in a tight circle above the train as though he was chasing his own tail and he kept this up until the train had passed.

Being a dog, he could hear a train well before I could so I learnt to watch which way he was pointing…

Peter

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This would be as opposed to a dog a short line engineer told me about.

They were outbound to serve a customer when a dog appeared on/near the tracks. They hit it with the plow pilot, sending it rolling away from the train.

Apparently, it was uninjured, as exactly the same thing happened with the same dog on the return trip…

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Sounds like you found a new breed - ‘Directional Train Pointer’.

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Thanks. Terrific bunch of stories. But I like cats too.

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I emailed the URL to friends: Here is one response:

Thanks for the great story.

Years ago, the dog of a cousin of mine living in
Allston was featured in a similar story in one of