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Herb Fuller is a second-generation railroad buff. His father, Harold Fuller, founded the National Railroad Museum in 1956 in Green Bay, Wis. Back then, the Fuller familys idea of a great summer vacation was to travel to mining country in Wyoming to watch the huge steam locomotives hauling mile-long trains loaded with ore through the mountains. Fullers dad got to ride in the cab of the Big Boy, the largest locomotive ever built, but safety regulations kept Fuller and his brother from enjoying the same experience.https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/wp-content/uploads/2004/05/05-bigpic-2.jpg