Re: OT Word from Iraq to the Traitors in the Dim party!

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at Oh Dark 30 I have to go pick up a conservative friend when he
comes
back from a cruise on Sunday morning. I may get some neat
pictures
of
his ship slipping under the Sunshine Skyway Bridge....

Send them, I've always been interested in big ships along with
steam
locomotives, big machinery. I have a one of a 1000 footer
entering
the
Duluth shipping channel, prior to the lift bridge, did I ever send
it?
This would have been with my old camera.

No you didn't send it....send on!

My grand dad on my mom's side was a railroad fireman. I share your
interest in steam.

Sent
--


I'm the first member of my family in generations that hasn't worked
for
the
railroads at some point in his life.

Dad worked at the Pullman works as a teenager during WW2.

Grandad worked for the Railway Express Agency, the FedEx of its day.

Great Grandad worked for the Pullman works.

Great-great-grandad had a piece of property that the then CCC&STL ran
through and my great-great-grandmother ended up being a grease spot on
the
CCC&STL. (Supposedly at her advanced age, she'd gone deaf and
didn't
hear
it.)

Charles of Schaumburg


Grand Dad worked on the Monon in Indiana and the Southern Pacific
after they moved out to California.

When was real small, Mother took me to the rail yards of the Monon and
I got a ride in the cab of a diesel for a little bit. To a little kid
that was a monster.

--

Scott in Florida




My folks took me up to a diesel engine when I was 5. Scared the *****
outta
me. Didn't help that I had tonsilitis at the time and my ears hurt,
too.

Monon, so you're an Indiana boy? My sister lives within sight of the
1854
branch line of the IC. Dad used to wait for the City of New Orleans go
by
every morning.

Charles of Schaumburg


Grand Parents on my Mother's side lived in Bloomington (he was a
professor at IU and there is a building named after him). In my
very young years I lived in Chesterton (on Lake Michigan).

My Father was Director of Plays at the University of Chicago.

At about 9 years old, we moved to Dry Branch Georgia (look that
up....LOL).

--

Scott in Florida




Dayam.

Our dog Gaffer was a Macon Mutt from the Macon pound (1984) but even I've
never been to Dry Branch. Fort Valley and Perry, yes, Dry Branch, no.

Ever heard of Fred's Dollar Store?

Charles of Schaumburg


Doesn't strike a bell in the old memory box.

How about Pigly Wiggly?

My Dad was personal manager for Georgia Kaolin. That was a privately
owned kaolin mining outfit.

The post office in Dry Branch would confiscate Time Magazine if they
didn't care for an article...LOL

--

Scott in Florida




My dad was manager of the Fort Valley Fred's in 1984. Then they sent him to
Vidalia.

Oddly enough, there are no Piggly Wigglys that I know of here in Illinois
but there are some in Wisconsin. We used to have a Piggly Wiggly between
the highways in Helena. The highway was split into 2 one way roads and the
PW sat between the two.

Charles of Schaumburg


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