ADDENDUM to the "Bishop" story! Yesterday, I found a reference to a DISHMAN, William in a Barry County Coroner's report (but you have to send...
Yes. "chat" actually comes from the word "chert" a type of mineral.. Heh! I didn't know it was Frisco specific... Mama always called any loose...
As I think, I remember more stuff. I used mnemonics to remember these... the grade crossing one I remember because the - - 0 - translates to...
Well, the photos are up... what I can find right now... and here is ther story of that locket. My great grandparents, Millard Nathaniel "Nathan"...
I was very fortunate. I was raised by my grandmother, who was raied in a railroading family. So I heard (and still use) terms she taught me. Just...
I come from a railroading family. I grew up on tales of the Road. I may be the only girl in the world who wanted to grow up to be a brakeman....
Some in the Ozarks call it "The Knowin' Way". Whatever it is, they had it. Nathan Jaques, my great grandfather once worked in a hotel, I think in...
THANK you! There are two new views of old 1231, the engine my great grandfather, Millard N. Jaques worked on. He was a fireman, brakeman and later...
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