Get busy livin’
As we mourn the loss of our colleague and mentor Jim Wrinn (see page 6), it’s hard to ignore some of the last — and best — advice he ever shared: Get busy livin’. In my 10 years at Trains and Classic Trains, I have been blessed with a number of fantastic experiences, from trips to Winterail to climbing over Metra’s new Englewood Flyover in Chicago and through CSX Transportation’s rebuilt Virginia Avenue Tunnel in Washington, D.C. One of the experiences I’m most grateful for is chasing Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 through the California and Nevada desert in April 2014 as it began its journey to Cheyenne for eventual restoration. Jim recognized this opportunity for a young assistant editor, too, and abdicated the first two days of the chase to…