[CBQ] Merry Christmas! (an odd request to Burlington)

[Gerald & Virginia Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com>]

  From the estate of Fred Clouse, LONG-TIME Gen. Passenger Agent for the 
Burlington on Lines East ending with BN in Chicago

 

  The following postcard ended up in his office @ 547 W. Jackson, postmarked 
from Chicago.  He took it home & saved it as he apparently found it amusing.  I 
will share it verbatim, underlined/spelled/punctuated as the writer did.  There 
was no name or return address:  

 

   "How about a new idea to allow poor people to see our beautiful country 
cheaply by selling travel tickets for us to ride freight trains in empty box 
cars legally.  Make hobo style of travel available to us.  Why have lots and 
lots of empty box cars returning on the rails when people - families, singles, 
old people - could be riding in them for a price.  Put up outdoor style 
outhouses (toilets) in rail yards where trains stop and we could safely get 
off.  At pumps, we could get water.  We'll buy own own food in town stores and 
carry it in rucksacks.  Maybe small towns could build small picnic areas near 
the railroad yards and camping (tent) areas.  help merica boom still more."

 

  Shades of Rochelle & other towns on the Burlington (the picnic areas)!

 

            Merry Christmas!





Gerald 


 





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