Old Friends rediscovered

I guess I was feeling nostalgic, as I had come back from a DR drill in Philadelphia,
where I worked when I first came to the US in 1983.

I had a friend who worked in British Rail in Scotland before I came here.
He won't mind if I say he was a 'train fanatic'. Imagine my surprise that I
'Googled' his name and 'Rail' and found that he still works on the railways
in Scotland.

There something to be said for that kind of presence. I didn't have much luck
looking for any of my other friends.