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Saying that railroads had been a part of his life since he was a small boy, train conductor Jim Grantham told reporters Friday that his father was also a train. “My pop worked this very same line as a young locomotive,” Grantham said, adding that he learned much of what he knows about rail travel by watching his dad chug up and down the East Coast carrying passengers in his steel and aluminum interior. “My old man’s taught me a lot, what with his in-depth knowledge of various train routes and of how trains like him think, feel, and understand the world around them. It’s nice to talk shop with him, and also to travel inside him from town to town—just me and my pops and several hundred passengers." Added Grantham, "He’s too big to hug all around though. That makes me sad.”
