Like most boys his age, Gideon is all about the trains. When we are at church (which is in downtown Moline), every time Gideon hears a train going by he gets all excited and says, "Papa, train!"
A few weeks ago, we took him to the hump yard in Davenport. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's a train yard. At one end of the train yard is a hill of sorts (thus giving it the name, hump yard). Below the hill are a bunch of different tracks. This is where they build the trains (this train car goes on that train, etc) until a full train is build and then off it goes.
The great thing is that it's normally really noisy! So the engine with all the cars goes passed the hump. Then a guy releases the train cars one at a time (after he's switched the track so each car goes to each correct train). I know this sounds confusing... reckon it to my inability to explain it well. If you saw it, it'd make sense immediately. Then the engine pushes the car over the hump, and gravity takes over. The train goes rambling down the hill and slams into the other cars, and it automatically connects with the car, and so on and so on.
So Gideon loved it. And we watched them do this for a while. Here are the pictures.
A few weeks ago, we took him to the hump yard in Davenport. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's a train yard. At one end of the train yard is a hill of sorts (thus giving it the name, hump yard). Below the hill are a bunch of different tracks. This is where they build the trains (this train car goes on that train, etc) until a full train is build and then off it goes.
The great thing is that it's normally really noisy! So the engine with all the cars goes passed the hump. Then a guy releases the train cars one at a time (after he's switched the track so each car goes to each correct train). I know this sounds confusing... reckon it to my inability to explain it well. If you saw it, it'd make sense immediately. Then the engine pushes the car over the hump, and gravity takes over. The train goes rambling down the hill and slams into the other cars, and it automatically connects with the car, and so on and so on.
So Gideon loved it. And we watched them do this for a while. Here are the pictures.
We were able to get really close to the trains as this, apparently, doesn't seem to be a huge destination point for most people. 
Gideon chillin watching the trains being built.
Upon returning to the car, we found Moma chillin, too!
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With all due respect to Gideon and his papa, the best photo of this post is that of the mama!
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