Passenger Trains
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Kearney, Nebraska
My family and I moved to Kearney, Neb., in November 1966. My dad was the local agent for the Railway Express Agency ther...
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California Vacation
In the summer of 1965, my parents and I took a vacation trip to Southern California. We would be staying with relatives...
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Childhood memories
My father worked for Union Pacific and growing up in the 1960s we (my mother and 9 brothers and sisters) would board the...
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ONE LAST VISIT BEFORE SHIPPING OUT
My dad was called to WW II in early 1943. My mother, though pregnant with me, was not going to be denied one last visit ...
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Riding the City of Denver to La Salle, Colo., at Age 12
In the fall of 1954, my brother and I drove to Chicago for his marriage to a beautiful Wisconsin girl. After spending t...
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Omaha Shops
Officially, I started my 16-year railroad career on Halloween 1973, as a new Machinist Apprentice. However, my earliest ...
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I miss the steam engines!
My grandfather was a station agent for the CB&Q, and that’s the road that served my hometown of Scottsbluff, Neb., but...
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Train ride with granddad
My granddad George R. Smith was a conductor on passenger train for Denver to North Platte, Neb. I would ride with him o...
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My Mom As A Railroad Wife
My Dad, Terrell Allen Perry married my Mom in June 1940. He started to work for the Missouri Pacific in Poplar Bluff, M...
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The MoPac Eagle
I recall traveling by passenger train in the 1960s. Mom would often take my sister, brother and me on the Missouri Paci...
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Train Cars
Chapters flicker between passing cars Compartments of life, in each Variables of sun and clouds Defining, the break...
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Railroad careers and heredity
A few years after being hired at Union Pacific in Omaha, I discovered my Great-grandfather Henry Steinbeck had worked fo...
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Lifetime Memories
Reviewing my comments I see that I may have included railroad lines that may not have been the Union Pacific, but for me...
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When I Was young
I think was around 4 to 5 when I took my first train ride. I remember it being late evening and dark. I was there with ...
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Move to Oregon
My mother, sister and I boarded the Portland Rose in Savanna, Ill., in June 1969 on our move to Baker, Ore. It was my f...
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From the West Coast to the East Coast
I can still remember traveling with my mom and little sister from California (Travis AFB) to Washington, D.C. My dad re...
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