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GUESTBOOK
To sign, send an e-mail to [email protected] with your name, where you're from, and your railroad, if you had one. Every entry gets read aloud at Grandpa's kitchen table.
Edward Vetter, Hutchinson, Kansas
September 19, 1999
Retired dispatcher here, 38 years. I check this page every few months hoping for Troop Trains. I copied my share of those movements and I'd like to see how it looked from the depot end. John, if you're reading, I hope you and Cleo are keeping well. 73.
Theresa Starr, Topeka, Kansas
July 4, 1999
My father was a depot agent in three towns in southern Kansas, and we lived upstairs in two of them, so I can't wait for "Upstairs at the Depot." Reading Chapter 2 was like hearing Dad talk again. Thank you, Mr. Russell, and thank you, Kenny.
Frank Garland, Amarillo, Texas
April 11, 1999
Signal maintainer, retired. Is Chapter 4 ever coming? I've sent this page to every old head I know. Kenny, give your grandpa a nudge.
Anthony Freeman, Wichita, Kansas
January 23, 1999
I'm building a little prairie depot for my HO layout, and your description of the bay window and the freight room is taped to the wall over my workbench. Who knew there was a whole art to hooping up orders? Great reading.
Betty Patterson, Pueblo, Colorado
October 30, 1998
I'm a ham radio operator and I learned the international code for my license. I had no idea the railroad code was different until I read Chapter 1. Spaced letters! I tried a few on my key and I'm hopeless at it. Hats off to you, sir.
Bernard Wynkoop, McCook, Nebraska
March 8, 1998
My granddaughter printed this out for me. I'm 82 and I worked the key from 1934 until they took the wire out. I hooped up a thousand orders and walked a thousand miles hunting hoops in the weeds, and I laughed out loud at that part. The forked stick was a great invention and I'll fight any man who says otherwise. 73 and 30, John.
Geneva Vincent, Enid, Oklahoma
December 14, 1997
I was an operator during the war, one of the women they hired when the men went overseas. I worked third trick at a little station with a coal stove, a cat and a sounder, and I was never so proud of anything. I knew a lot of men by their fist and never met them once. Please write the troop trains chapter. I copied orders for those trains too.
Jack Tompkins, Emporia, Kansas
November 20, 1997
Retired conductor. I was braking on a freight that sat in a drift for most of two days that same January of '49, a good ways east of Kestrel, and we lived on sandwiches a farm wife brought out to us on her husband's tractor. Chapter 3 brought it all back. Thank you for writing these down before they're gone.