I can remember that we sent a Flat Stanley to Australia and it came back and the people told us it had spent some time in a kangaroo's pouch.

The next day, several people sent me images of that, and congratulations on that.

In the book, by Jeff Brown, Stanley gets squashed flat by a falling bulletin board. Stanley's parents rolled him up, put him in an envelope and mailed him to his friend in California. And that just seemed like a way of communicating that grade-three students might enjoy.

History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.

We wanted the first single to be a rock song because a lot of people thought of us as a power-ballad band.

That has been a real help to us to bring in more people because there is such a love and excitement with the live steam engine. Joe is a great friend and a wonderful friend to model railroading. This is a labor of love for all of us. We get paid by the smiles and the happiness of kids of all ages.