Hol - I'm a "silent" member of this List and want to step forward and
say how much I enjoy reading the transcribed official correspondence. My late
father M.L. Zadnichek was a Lines East and West train master, division
superintendent and director of TOFC during the 1950s and 60s. Dad may've been
train master at St. Joseph, MO, at the time E.R. Schrader was division
superintendent as we lived there in the mid-1950s. Dad was a baggage
man and brake man on the C&I during World War Two. All his family were
C&NW people going back to my g-g-grandfather who established his seniority
on the section at Quarry, IA, in 1870 having immigrated earlier from Bohemia. I
was born in 1946 at Mendota, IL, where my mom said the vibration from
passing trains would shake the pictures loose on the walls, as well as make her
rewash the clothes from the cinders that fell in the yard where the clothes
line was located. The name E.L. Potarf particularly rang a bell as he mentored
my father as a young trainmaster at Casper, WY, in the early 1950s.
Mr. Potarf became a close family friend and I have snapshots taken by
my dad of Mr. and Mrs. Potarf and daughter with myself, brother
and mother at Sunday afternoon family get-togethers. Both my dad and
mom thought the world of Mr. Potarf and stayed in touch with him through their
lifetimes. I also see other names of Q officials who my dad was well
acquainted with and some of whom I met as a child. It really was one big
Burlington Family in that era, something that today has been lost. Dad was
a collector, too, and I have his personal papers, official documents pertaining
to his career, lanterns, bells, headlights, whistles, builders plates,
photographs and other Q memorabilia. Today, my son Miles continues the
Zadnichek Family railroad heritage as a revenue accountant with NS in Atlanta,
GA. I encourage you to continue researching and transcribing the official
correspondence. I very much appreciate your efforts. Best Regards - Louis
Zadnichek II, Fairhope, AL
In a message dated 1/24/2013 10:59:53 A.M. Central Standard Time,
holpennywagner@msn.com writes:
Pete: Yup, I checked an Alliance Division ETT and he was
indeed division superintendent. Thanks! Hol
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com From: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com Date: Thu, 24 Jan
2013 11:46:03 -0500 Subject: Re: [CBQ] Boxcars in Passenger
Service
E.R. Shrader was a Superintendent...He was at St. Joe in the 1950's...I
have a personal letter from him turning down my request for Jim Christen and I
to ride the "head end" of No.93 from Corning to Villisca.
Shrader's nephew lives here in Lincoln and we have had several
conversations recently about "uncle Ed". He is buried near York,
NE...His nephew is going to take me out to his burial site sometime next
spring.
Pete
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