Bill: In the December 2005 issue of National Geographic on page 120, I read about a fellow who is a 33-year rail traffic controller in the Grand Central Terminal named Alan Gruber! Could it a relation of yours? Have never seen the name Gruber except for "our BIG." Sherrin [Moderator's note: No, no relation of mine, but he sounds like someone I want to meet! Actually, maybe I already have since I've taken many tours of the operations there and it's definitely something I consider to be quite "fun". Maybe I'll convince him I'm a long lost relative and he'll let me play with his trains :-) BIG] [Posted in FML issue 5121]