Speaking of Company Coal...let me put in my 2 cents worth of memories. Working the Fairmont-Hildreth local summer 1958 one day...probably about the middle of August the Old Head Conductor remarked...
Pete, My wife says the same thing. Everything reminds me of something. Whether it my 23 years in the Army or growing up on the CB&Q. All those station names you mentioned are very familiar to me.
Speaking of Company Coal...let me put in my 2 cents worth of memories. Working the Fairmont-Hildreth local summer 1958 one day...probably about the middle of August the Old Head Conductor remarked..
My active duty military time was spent at Ft. Eustis, VA..April-October 1959...so we didn't have to worry about any heating....however the old baracks still had coal stoves for heating...Seems like t