dark green wooden cars and carried, besides the passengers, goods, baggage and the mail. There was the caboose used for the conductor and trainmen, and at times visiting dignitaries who

traveled by train. Even though travel was slow, it was a way of life that people

learned to accept back then. Long waits not only effected the passengers, but family members who spent long and tiresome hours sitting in the train stations. The waits would be diffi- cult for people to accept in to-days modern world of travel. People now are hurry conscious and have little or no patience to wait around. When one can drive to a one

hour cleaners or photo shop and get a quick lunch at a drive through window, waiting is considered an irritation. The hustle and bustle in our fast changing world and wanting everything ”NOW,” did a job on railroad travel. It

phased out the old iron horse. A conductor liked to tell a story of a passenger traveling on

the slow moving train and asking many times, when the train would reach his destination. Having a full train of passengers

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