A Recurring Dream

Sometimes the most powerful photograph is the one that brings out emotions in us and this photograph did that for me. A couple of days ago I posted the photograph of the curve where two railway men lost their lives when their train lost it's brakes and they were unable to stop it. Today's photograph is of one of the two crosses that have been made into a permanent memorial to those men. This is the cross in memory of Kevin Williams, 38 who died alongside his colleague Gil Ortiz, 25. Now I didn't know either of these men but they encountered every train drivers nightmare "A runaway train". Every so often during my railway career I would have a dream about being unable to stop a train. In fact I still have that dream now once in a while and I haven't driven a train for over 10 years. What I didn't realize until a break room conversation was that every train driver would have that dream once in a while too. For a train driver that was a worst case scenario and it would wake me up in a cold sweat.