Shining Time: My Early Years
The Beginning I remember driving home with my parents to the farm. It was late at night and I remember being in the car, with the first few episodes of Shining Time Station floating in my mind. I don't know if I had just watched it for the first time or if I watched it when we came home - but something stuck. I remember my Grandma, Betty, telling me about the show for the first time. "It takes place in a magical train station", she said. "There's a puppet band inside a jukebox that plays railroad songs". And, of course, there was Thomas . Being about 4 years old at the time, I was already well into Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends . I remember renting the VHSs of "Thomas Gets Tricked" and "James Learns A Lesson" from the video store and library early on. That obsession was sealed. STS was something new. It involved people: people who felt, cried, got angry, created things, and tried their best to keep a small station on the Indian V