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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Circus, post: 2216865, member: 51195&quot;]Speaking of Selfridge, It being with in 2 miles or less of where I live, Other than being named after the first airman to die in a crash, and being high on the nuc target list for the soviets because of the SAC planes based there.</p><p>Do you know what it also had as a singular distinction of being the only one in the world?</p><p>Instead of playing 20 questions I will cut the suspense short and just tell!</p><p>It was the only airport/airbase in the world that the air traffic controllers also had to be called by trains crossing the end of the runway, as some of the fly boys would be coming in low. (Weekend warriors mostly in the last 30 or so years) Both the Grand Trunk coal trains delivering to the power plants on base. And there was a small rail/transit museum that stored and operated on the trackage on the base. I was a operating member of the train museum, It use to freak out the people on the train when we would be approaching the runway at the same time as a large tanker would be coming in for a landing or even more impressive taking off.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that you have jogged my memory about the tokens for the mess, and clubs. I will have to be on the look out for them.</p><p>When I was with the museum in the mid seventies, the wife of the warrant officer that ran the clubs on base was an operating member of the train museum. She was another show stopper, for people driving along the roads next to the tracks. To see a blonde with long flowing air, hanging out the window of the locomotive signaling for a crossing. In her engineers overalls, hat and red bandana![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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