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AB9, NSK, this is KC2 PAG from East Machias, Maine, where Amtrak used to run. There was, starting in Boston, a track that went all the way up and along the Maine sea coast. And apparently it was one of the prettiest rides you could ever want. But I think in the late in the 60s, and it went all the way into Canada too, by the way, it went through up into Canada. And late in the 60s, the ridership was down so far that it closed it. And then by the time we got here in the early 2000s, they tore up all the tracks. So there's a roadbed for a railroad car that runs all the way through this whole area. It's called the Sunrise Trail, and it's used by AT beers and all sorts of people, and runners and stuff like that. And we keep up that roadbed. I wish it was still a train. I think that would have been a really cool ride to get on. It really is very pretty country I live in. And that used to be spectacular. But Less's family, that's how they got up here for the longest time. They'd get off the train station in Machias, and then they'd have somebody pick them up in a car, and then they would get in a boat with all their supplies and drive it to the cabin. And that was the old way of doing it. And they'd come up and they would stay. Her mom, and later on, her mom and her sisters and brothers would all get on that train and come up here, be here all summer. And when she was a girl, this is Less's mom, she'd come over, that would be her summer job. She'd work in the Blueberry Factory picking the snakes out of the blueberries. So pretty wild, pretty wild times. Anyway, that's cool. It's too bad it's not still a train, but it is the ATV road right in the corner. So that's her. Anyway, that's you Russell KB9, MSK, this is KC2, PKG.