>When I was on the train, the driver was throwing something out the window.
>I asked my conductor. He stated: "They're tomato seeds. Look backwards,
>you will see the guard picking the tomatos".
>--
>Regards
>Roderick Smith
>Rail News Victoria Editor
See Patsy Adam Smith's "Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen" (1969),
wherein all these stories- and more- appear. Also, Botkin, 1953, "A
Treasury of Railroad Folklore" also has them- butl for the American RR
scene.
Geoff Lambert