RECOMMENDED RAILROAD READING: "Could anyone mistake a Russion locomotive running today in the Ukraine for an American locomotive in Wisconsin?," teases J. W. Swanberg in Trains. Yup, notes the print article, which also notes that parts of Ukraine aren't that different from Wisconsin. Indeed not. The first picture in the article shows a locomotive and train standing in Toporishche. That's the center of the Prussian Baptist colony in Volhynia. Many of those Prussian Baptists, including my mom's mother and several grand-aunts and grand-uncles lived not far from there, in Valki, and they migrated to Coleman and Pound in northern Wisconsin. (Is there a way to combine a steam trip with a research trip? Thinking, thinking ....)