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The official publication of the Western Kentucky Chapter, NRHS. NRHS NATIONAL NEWS OCTOBER 2001 VOLUME 5 NUMBER 10 NRHS BULLETIN Chapter Western Kentucky NEWS Chapter, NRHS As reported earlier, Frank Tatnall is 111 Reed Place stepping down as Madisonville, KY 42431 Bulletin Editor. President Malloy has * * * * * appointed Henry M. OCTOBER (Hank) Morris as President Bulletin Editor and Jeff MEETING Bob McCracken Smith as Production Vice President Ricky Bivins Sect. Treas. Wally Watts National Director Chuck Hinrichs ————- Editor. Hank has over 20 years of editorial “PENNYRAIL” is the experience with Control MADISONVILLE, KENTUCKY official publication of Engineering magazine. the Western Kentucky He lives in Chicago and Monday, October 22 7:00 PM Chapter, NRHS. is a lifelong railfan. Badgett Center Send news notes, Jeff will work on the historical notes and business side dealing with budgets, logistics other rail information (Old L&N Depot ) and production related to: Arch Street and the railroad in downtown Madisonville issues. Frank Tatnall will remain as an active Editor staff member. PROGRAM Chuck Hinrichs Thanks to Frank for Wally Watts will present the October program. 112 Windsor Drive 13 years of quality (The October meeting has been postponed until Hopkinsville, KY 42240 publications and best Monday November 4 due to conflicting usage of 270-886-2849 wishes to Hank and the Badgett Center.) The presentation is a video Jeff in keeping the depicting the restoration and return to service of e-mail Bulletin informative [email protected] and timely. (Continued on page 2) 1 PENNYRAIL Chapter News MORE PHOTOS (Continued from page 1) Santa Fe 3751. This should be a real treat for the steam fans in the group. Refreshments will be provided. Come and bring a guest! AUGUST MEETING Twenty members were on hand for the meeting. Rick Bivins put on a very good program for the members. Rick’s program was a nice slide show on restoration projects and potential projects, plus many items that Rick has collected over the years. The items on display ranged from railroad lanterns to a restored two-wheel freight hand-cart that was used at Madisonville’s L&N Railroad Passenger Station. Nice job Rick on the hand-cart and the Baldwin 1920 vintage 2-8-0 #40 (on lease from Georgetown Loop Railroad and program. Jackie McCracken originally from International Railways of Central America) is heading an provided the refreshments for the excursion special at Fraser, British Columbia. Photograph taken on September meeting. Both Rex and Ron left 15, 2001 by Wallace Henderson. the meeting with big smiles. Ron set the cake eating record for the night with three pieces of cake on his plate at once. The rest of the members enjoyed the cake too or at least what was left of it after Rex and Ron got done. Now we know how young lions feel after watching the older lions eat their food and being stuck with the leftovers CSX provided three trains through downtown Madisonville during the meeting. The first passed at 8:00 PM, it was northbound manifest train Q596. This train operates from Nashville (Continued on page 3) MEMBERSHIP National and Chapter - includes 11 issues of “Pennyrail” and 6 issues of the NRHS Bulletin $28.00 per year. On the White Pass & Yukon - a meet between a tourist train and the excursion Family membership $31.00 per special. Power is a pair of Alco/GE “shovel nose” diesels. The train is year. returning to Skagway and was photographed at Glacier on September 17, 2001. Photograph by Wallace Henderson. 2 PENNYRAIL Dad worked with Billy Byrd for Chapter News years. Welcome David to the proximity to a railroad! Seriously Western Kentucky Chapter guys we can’t wait to see trains NRHS. By the way, David is a running. (Continued from page 2) member of the L&N Historical to Chicago. The power lashup Society. David's address and Wally Watts advises that the was one BNSF SD40-2 and one phone number is as follows: TCRM trip to Cookeville in Burlington Northern SD4O-2. October is all sold out. Some of The next train passed at 8:30 David Millen the members are going on the PM and was northbound 6117 Kratzville Road Carbondale Railroad Day trip from manifest train, Q-592. This Evansville, IN 47719 Carbondale to Fulton, KY and train operates between return on October 27. There is Waycross, Georgia and Phone 812-491-3382 limited seating on this train so Chicago. Power on this train check with Chris Dees for details was one CSX "Tote Boat" B36- or Call the Carbondale Visitors 7 and one CSX C40-8. The CHAPTER Bureau for last minute last train through Madisonville information (800-526-1500). As during the meeting was at 9:00 NOTES of October 11 there were seats PM. This was another available for the train. Chapter participation in the northbound manifest train Q648. This train runs between 2001 L&N Historical Society Nashville and Chicago. The convention in Nashville was ELECTIONS locomotive lashup was two slim with only Keith Kittinger and Bill Grady attending. From CSX C40-8s. Nominations for Chapter notes on the internet it was a very good event and accolades officers will be held at the October NEW MEMBER were given to Keith and to meeting (and possibly elections Steve Johnson for jobs well will also be held at the postponed meeting, depending on what the The chapter would like to done. membership chooses to do about welcome our newest member. a November/December meeting.) He is David L. Millen of Bob Moffett and Louie Hicks now live just one house apart and both are into G scale Officers to be nominated and railroading with outdoor tracks elected are: President, Vice under construction. The President, Secretary, Treasurer, neighborhood is quite National Director and, should one concerned - you know what person fill both the secretary and happens to property values in treasurer position, a Director-at- large. RAILROAD COMING EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS CHAPTER EVENTS AS RAILFANS WE ARE OFTEN AT TRACKSIDE AND IN POSITION TO OBSERVE EMERGENCY CONDITIONS THE ANNUAL CLAYTON/ THAT COULD AFFECT WATTS OPEN HOUSE IS Evansville. David is an old RAILROAD SAFETY OR SCHEDULED FOR friend of Billy Byrd. David was SECURITY. KEEP THESE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER born in Earlington, but his NUMBERS HANDY TO 24 AT 7 PM AT THE family moved to Evansville REPORT INCIDENTS. while David was very young. CLAYTON RESIDENCE AT David Millen BNSF 800-832-5452 750 WILSON DRIVE IN MADISONVILLE. CN/IC 800-465-9239 David's Dad worked for over CSX 800-232-0144 51 years for the L&N Railroad. * * * * He started working at the L&N NS 800-453-2530 Howell Shops in Evansville at UP 888-877-7267 the age of seventeen. David's THE CHAPTER 3 PENNYRAIL NORTH The Dixon Journal TOTOTO These two items are from an historical abstract of Webster County newspapers. The material was supplied by A C Stanley ALASKA By TRAINMEN HURT IN REARREAR----ENDEND COLLISION Wallace Henderson Hopkinsville, Ky., Nov. 4. (1916)- Four trainmen were injured in a rear-end collision of south-bound freight trains late last night on the L.& N. railroad, near As a child looking through the Kelly Station. The victims are: Conductor E. W. Renfroe, of Earlington, and “Official Guide,” I was always Flagman Marion Ashby, of Madisonville, on one train and Engineer P. W. Tuck, intrigued by the listing, complete with map, of the White Pass & and Fireman J. L. Franklin, of Nashville, on the other. Renfroe and Ashby were Yukon Railroad, 3 foot gauge. hurled from the cupola of their caboose into a horse car and had a narrow escape When Trains Unlimited Tours from being trampled to death by frightened horses. Tick and Franklin jumped began running trips to the WP&Y I and were injured. was always going somewhere else. Finally, this year was the year to go, so I recruited my friend Dale PROVIDENCE ACCIDENT Roberts to go with me. Causes Death of Two and One Injured --------- Automobile Demolished by TrainTrain--------WomanWoman Hurt. Our TUT trip was combined Headed for Fair Grounds of Providence Are with a Pacific Rail Association trip on the British Columbia RR from Victims of Awful Fate. North Vancouver to as far north as you can go by rail, then a Providence, Ky., Aug. 5th (1913). - Roland Jenkins, age 40, of Coiltown, was charter bus up the Alaska instantly killed, Arden Parish, age 20, of Providence, was injured so severely Highway to the White Pass. The that he died a few hours later, and Mrs. Kenneth Sigler, age 25, was slightly railroad (WP&Y) begins in the Alaska panhandle port of Skagway injured when Jenkins! automobile was struck by a Louisville & Nashville and follows the legendary passenger train near the fair grounds at noon today. Klondike Trail into Canada. Once Jenkins carried passengers to and from the fair grounds. His only passenger it went all the way to Whitehorse on the fatal trip were Mrs. Sigler and Arden Parish. When the Automobile was in the Yukon, but the track on the nearing the L. & N. track which is within a few hundred feet of the fair grounds north end has been out of service pedestrians who saw the approaching train, shouted to the driver to stop his car. since 1982 when the last customer, a mine, ceased Jenkins either failed to hear shouts of warning or thought he could drive the car operations. Today the WP&Y past the track before the train reached the spot. hauls cruise passengers over the The engine struck the car in the center snapping it in two as if it were a sting top of the pass and back to of thread.