track (Mr. Cochran's Request for Old Postcard Imge Location)

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On 2/19/2025 10:08 AM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List wrote:

> The Engineman was an old crab named Ralph Thompson, who barely spoke to the head end brakeman.
Abe,

     Your memories of Ralph Thompson are much different than my own. He 
was the Road Foreman of Engines on the Shenandoah Division under Russell 
Cabiness when I went there. Ralph was quite the "dresser" and always 
wore coveralls when on the train with us. I never had a hard time 
carrying out a conversation with him or Mr. Cabiness and they were 
always nice to me. It is also my understanding that one time he and his 
engineer saved a woman from her burning house near Montgomery Tunnel.
     The railroad as a whole did have some "crabby" people working out 
there, but to me, Ralph Thompson wasn't one of them!

Jimmy Lisle