Mmm, mmm, doin' the locomotion -- I think I've got the knack! Now if only this clue was as easy to figure out!

I was in Lahaina, Maui this March, Cami, one of the ports of call on my cruise. I didn't go on the sugar cane train, but did this more modest tram tour during a visit to the Maui Tropical Plantation Park. http://mauitropicalplantation.com/tropical-tram-t...

I spotted at least half a dozen whales out in the channel as our ship approached the dock. With or without the humpback whales, I'd also take a Maui Dream Home in a heartbeat.

By the way, no sign of Jack T during my visit, but he may have been over on Kauai at the time.

Here it is, only Friday evening, with a long weekend ahead of us. Are we running out of steam already trying to get some traction out of this loco-motive clue?

Don't give up on Hawaii so quickly, Cami. This one's a blast from the past -- literally: http://www.sugarcanetrain.com/

I was there recently, and yes, I did spot whales frolicking in the warm Pacific waters.

I wonder if Jack T would surprise us by revisiting Utah so soon?

This extensive new community development in St. George certainly boasts beautiful scenery, custom homesite options and lots of recreational activity: http://www.splitrockinc.com/index.html

Ah yes, right you are, Ed. I can think of a few other railroad towns in California that wouldn't quite fit HGTV's Dream Home location requirements....

Hitching a ride on the rails back to Pennsylvania for a minute, it seems the state is a veritable hotbed of railroading history.

The story of the Reading Railroad, made famous around the world by the game of Monopoly, is chronicled at the Heritage Museum in Hamburg (just north of the city of Reading, PA) with vintage rail cars and locomotives, photographs, documents and other artifacts.

Near Lancaster, PA, in Strasburg, railroad history buffs can find displays of over 100 locomotives and railroad cars from the 19th and 20th centuries at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.

Created by Congress in 1986, the Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, PA tells the fascinating tale of steam railroading between 1850 and 1950. It is the only venue in the National Park System dedicated to preserving this important part of American history.

Graffiti-free freight cars? I do remember some, but that was years ago....

Turning to more US railroad history as a last resort (along with the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869 at Promontory, Utah) -- On July 4, 1828, the first spadeful of earth was turned over by the only surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, 91 year old Charles Carroll, thus celebrating the beginning of construction on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which was the first chartered freight line in the United States.

Eventually, B & O rail lines covered the states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey and New York.

Hmm, I wonder, will Debra G finally be getting her Virginia Dream Home after all? Either that or Mary gets her Bucks County, Pennsylvania Dream Home....

Come to think of it, the next Dream Home could be right in my back yard -- well, almost.

There are up to 60 freight trains each day that rumble down the tracks next to Interstate 10 through the Coachella Valley, skirting the Desert Cities of Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage, Indian Wells, Palm Desert and Indio.

Of course, there's also the busy freight railroad that runs right by my favorite destination community of Amboy, CA, but it's not the most likely spot for a Dream Home -- http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://farm5....