Scent or Sound

What scent or sound immediately takes you back to childhood? Describe the feeling it evokes.

The sound of chugging of a passing freight train brings back childhood memories. Both on Armore and on Woodward Avenue, we lived near the tracks. Noisy trains were a part of our daily lives.

I remember some of the experiments we made on those tracks. For instance, we carefully placed straight pins on the tracks in the form of a cross, hoping that those heavy wheels would seal them together.

Trains meant more at vacation time when we would take the D.T and I (Detroit, Toledo & Ironton) to Bainbridge, Ohio, to visit Grandpa Bond and Aunt Clara, their son Harold and their dog Ring. Then Grandpa would a few days later drive us to Cynthiana, where we could visit Grandma Kendall and Aunt Frances.

But I still don't like to wait long minutes at railroad crossings when freight trains go chugging by - despite pleasant childhood memories!