At the Springfield, MO train show on 9/22/12, a young railfan stares, rapt, as the Razorback Traction Co's crack "Radioactive Gi-raffe Train" rumbles along with its unit train of giraffes, destined to replace polluting coal in the nation's power plants with the help of the atomic fuel so alertly guarded by the AEC Security Train. Headed the other way, Lil' Stinky, the nation's only trolleycar steam locomotive, pulls a local freight past a Cincinnati PCC sidelined at the Giraffe Junction station...

Photograph and trains © me. Atomic Waste car and most of the gi-raffes through the kind courtesy of  EOCostello.