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Winter 1967

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Subject: Winter 1967
From: qutlx1@a...
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 21:12:30 EST
Heres a true story from the archives. Uncle Bill Wohl was in his 24th year of 
train service w/the Q in 1967 and had not missed a single assignment in those 
24 years(not one sick day,missed call or "mark me off dead", not one). He 
wasn't about to let 27 inches of snow and 3 or 4 ft drfits upset that record. 
So he walked from his spread on Bilter road east of Farnsworth Ave.(actually 
his property was the farthest east parcel in Kane Co and Dupage was right 
next door) to the old Aurora depot on So. Broadway. A distance of something 
like 4 or 5 miles! He arrived on time for his dinky and was a little suprized 
to find that none of his crew was there! 
Leo 
P.S.-When he retired in the fall of 1973 the string was unbroken at 30 years 
w/o a missed assingment. Think about that; 59 years of age in 1967 and 
walking thru that blizzard to get to work?!

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