The spousal unit's grandfather got his start on the L&N. I don't know when hired on with the Frisco, but during the 1920's, my mother in law and her siblings were reared on a farm near Franks, MO. At this time Gaither as he was know to his co-workers was a boiler inspector at Newburg. He would hop a train to get to and from Newburg. During the slack times of the depression, he relied on farming to support the large family. During 1941, he got on as a boiler maker at the West Shops in Springfield. One Christmas, not long after Colleen and I were married, I got a package with all the family passes, etc. I knew that I had been accepted by the in-laws.
