[CBQ] Re: Depot interior question

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

Hi Pete,

Harry Bedwell...that's an author that you don't hear about much these days! I 
remember reading many of Harry's stories that Freeman Hubbard reprinted in the 
old "Railroad" magazine.

Verne Brummel,
Fitchburg,WI



--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Jpslhedgpeth@... wrote:
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> 
> I was never in  depot of the vintage being discussed here that did not have 
> names and dates "inscribed" on the freight room walls...It was, apparently, a 
> common practice...
> 
> At Mt.Ayr, IA the depot has been refurbished and is used as a community 
> center...Primarily the work of one guy..In the freight room are many names of 
> operators long gone along with the dates they worked at MT.A.  This territory 
> is home territory to Harry Bedwell...my all time favorite railroad fiction 
> writer.  Harry was born at nearby Kellerton, IA..(first station east of Mt. 
> Ayr on the "Dirty Side" of the Chariton branch..I've been in the Mt A depot a 
> number of times and have looked for Harry's name, but thus far no results..
> 
> Pete
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> -----Original Message-----



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