Planes, trains and.... well just trains

Well I just had to sit down and get back to my blog. I'm sorry for not being so quick to post. My sister (KL's Mum) basically commented that "it was the pot calling the kettle black" in that I was accusing her of not posting very often! So here I am. I received an email regarding some Forman information just today that I found very interesting. There is a very distant cousin in Ontario who contacted me with information about my great great grandfather John Forman who came to Ontario from England back in the 19th century. Nancy is descended from on of John's sons and I am descended from another! Anyway she contacted me and has been providing me with oodles of delicious information. Well today she wrote to tell me about the discovery of a brother of the original John who also came to Ontario (named Joseph Forman) and mentioned that one of the things that he did was to work on the Great Western Railway. Well, didn't I just sell a picture of one of the first locomotives run on the Great West! The writing on the back of the framed photo claimed it was taken in 1862 and had written in pencil the names of some of the men in the photo. From reading what names I could, I figured one of them to be a Forman (and not a foreman if you know what I mean). My sister Irene and I really looked closely at this picture when I first bought it and really felt that the man (4th from the right hand side) looked an awful lot like a Forman member (we both thought he looked an awful lot like my dad). Well I leave this up to you to judge. I have posted the picture (as I have sold the item just recently) as well as a picture of the man mentioned in the picture who I think looks like a Forman (sorry the system could not upload this picture even though it said it did - how frustrating; I'm seriously thinking of changing blog servers). Hopefully you can zoom in and then get a better look. This was the best I could do under the circumstances. Let me know what you think. Have a look at the picture of my dad in a previous post - check out the forehead and eyes - they seem a dead giveaway to me! Write me and let me know what you think or just post a comment.
http://community.webshots.com/album/551561696DTxkBT By the way, this is the link to my sister Irene's photos taken of the Cancer Care Bear she and her friend designed and painted in Gimli, Manitoba in time for the Icelandic Festival this weekend. For those of you who do not know Irene, she is the lady in the hat with the glasses. The comments in the photos were done by her friend. Irene is so talented - man can she draw and paint. If you are near Gimli, don't forget to stop by the Credit Union and look at the ladies art. Fantastic.