The prominent feature of my childhood toilet was a wooden flushing handle hanging at the end of a long chain from an overhead tank with ivy growing out of it. Quite natural for this 4-year old's imagination to morph this handle into a choo-choo train steam whistle. Along with the child's sound effects came Engineer Bill who supervised a construction facility which moved the trains into the roundhouse when completed. There Roundhouse Bob notified Marshall when a train was released down the tracks that ran through his body to deliver the trains into the white porcelain fish bowl. As the years passed, the child's curiosity and pride grew to such an extent that he would study the trains, smell and even touch them before pulling on the "steam whistle" handle, sending this trains on the Orient Express to China.