Chicago Metra frequencies used at Union Station
You're a good dad, your daughter must have been in 7th heaven with her project. Rail guys are truly a friendly bunch, pre 9/11 just about anyone would get the red carpet treatment if they showed even the slightest interest in anything that had anything to do with trains. Even we would overlook certain department rules to accomodate a railfan, especially one with a child. I got bitten by the RR love bug at a very young age when my mom & I were late for a Long Island railroad tour of the Jamaica Station complex. by the time we arrived, everybody was gone, while I was bawling, a friendly platform conductor thought that we had missed our train & when my mom explained our dilemma, he literally opened up the world for me with one phone call, guys came out of the woodwork & gave me a truly wonderous experience of how the Long Island Railroad worked, they took us everywhere in, at or near jamaica Station, I even got to vist the 204 room which was probably & still is LIRRs communications center (That's if it wasn't relocated to PSCC in Manhattan) Then they took us to LIRRPD HQ about three blocks away & the desk sergeant advised me that at that time, they were the only railroad police department in New york State that were considered "real police officers 24 hours a day" He placed a great emphesis on that which being that young didn't matter to me until I joined the Penn-Central RR PD & learned the real world pecking order of police departments, you know, who has more power, jurisdictional responsibilty, which means more power, who is real & not real, my older brother (Who had a serious tight-ass LAPD officer Malloy complex) would lord it over me every chance he got by reminding me that he was NYPD & real & that I was PCPD & was basicaly just a glorified RR guard, by then I was so much in love with trains I didn't care about anything but going to work & playing with my trains. Sorry, I'm going down memory lane here & rambling. We will talk later my friend.
FLRAILMAN