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In the news today, the train at the Memphis Zoo lost its last car, then the car derailed and flipped. No one in the train was injured, but several riders were transported to the hospital.
I remember riding the train at the Memphis Zoo (they have nice site with a fun navigation rollover) since I was very little (if you have Facebook, you can see some photos of me when I was little that my sister-in-law Kim posted). Once in sixth grade I was at the Memphis Zoo for a field trip and several of my friends kept jumping off and on the train in the tunnel. After the 2nd time around with them jumping off, the train engineer (driver) stopped the train and found a hose and sprayed them down.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard that story before.
My favorite memory of the zoo train was riding it with Caleb and your mom when Caleb was little and seeing the trainers at the farm teaching a newborn foal how to walk. He couldn’t have been more than a few hours old.