[CBQ] Early CB&Q Family Members

["Verne Brummel" <ldb53jmb55@charter.net>]

I'm wondering if any older list members remember members of my family who 
worked for the CB&Q many decades ago. My Dad, Ralph Brummel, worked at the 
Aurora,IL shops during World War II. My uncle, Ralph May, was a brakeman for a 
few years during the late 30's/early 40's, working on mostly the branch lines 
out of Aurora. My mother, a railfan who died in 2007 at age 96, took her first 
ride on the CB&Q from the old Aurora depot in 1916. My Dad recalled, as a kid, 
riding his bike in downtown Aurora to watch the construction of the new Aurora 
depot, as well as the elevation of the CB&Q mainline, during the early 1920's. 
Other relatives included a grandfather, August May, and a great grandfather 
that once worked for the "Q", the latter an engineer who was killed in an 
accident in the Aurora yard.

Verne Brummel,
Fitchburg,WI



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