Re: [CBQ] M.L. Zadnichek's CB&Q World

["Louis Zadnichek via groups.io" <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io>]

December 15, 2021

 

Dallas - Thank you!  In sharing the images with the Group, I wanted to add some "visual context" to my article about Dad. This was the everyday world that he (and for that much, his lifelong friend and fellow division superintendent C.J. Miller whose career was covered in Burlington Bulletin No. 64) were a part of.   

 

The photographs reflect everyday life on the Burlington Route, both for employees like Dad and Mr. Miller, as well as for the general public who used the railroad to ride and ship freight upon.  Without seeing these photographs, younger folks today would have a difficult time understanding what life was like in 1948.

 

It's often said that one of the most boring things in the world is reading someone else's family history and I can understand that. Thus, by viewing the photographs, a reader can connect them with all the jobs that Dad held during the Great Depression to keep his seniority as a trainman.  Plus, this was what he "saw" on the job.

 

The "I am a Burlington Man" series offers a wonderful opportunity to descendants of CB&Q/C&S/FW&D employees to both memorialize their family members regardless of whatever craft or official position they held as well as tell "their story" in the context of the times they lived in.  This is living history at its best - Louis

 

Louis Zadnichek II

Fairhope, AL

In a message dated 12/15/2021 8:01:55 AM Central Standard Time, mudhop@gmail.com writes:

 

Thanks so much for sharing these!

- Dallas Giddens 

mudhop@gmail.com

 

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