Back When We Slept and Cooked on the Caboose

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Jim 

That is really interesting, I wonder if my father ever met your parents. Again, I don’t remember exactly when this happened, and don’t really remember what my father did prior to that. It might have even been much earlier, as I remember us making a trip to Bluefield late in the steam era, as I remember riding watching the J up front in the cold air with the steam billowing back from back on the round end car. I don’t remember what we went up there for exactly, too young, but I remember the ride. I remember the cold, wet weather in Bluefield and looking down from a window on the trains. Who knows?

It is still one of my most precious memories from that time.

Best
Ken

> On Mar 25, 2022, at 3:44 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> Ken, I was interested to learn that your father had an apartment in Mayor Manor. My parents lived there from 1946 until Dad died in 1969. It was simply called the Mayor Building then - no "Manor". Anyhow, I lived there from 1946 until the summer of 1953 (when I worked on Section 1). Technically,that was my residence until I became pastor at Narrows in late 1959, but I was there only a few days at a time. After that, Hazel and I would visit my folks occasionally until Dad died in 1969 and Mom moved to Montcalm. Our first apartment was the front one on the third floor, which gave us a great view of the trains. Sometime in the late '50's or early 60's they moved down to the back apartment on the second floor. View of the trains was more limited there, but you could still keep upwith the passenger trains.
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> Jim Nichols
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