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Blue Ridge Chapter, NRHS Vol. 16 April, 2009 No. 4 (photo by Mac Owen) Fred Mayer presents the April program for the Blue Ridge Chapter, NRHS. He will be showing videos by Henry Griffiths, renowned railroad photagorapher of the 1950a and 60s. The show will include scenes of UP diesels, UP snowplowing, the 1969 Golden Spike centennial celebration at Promontory Point, SP cab-forwards, UP 8444, NP steam and Milwaukee electrics. Secure the date! Wednesday, April 8. 6:00 p.m. Charley’s Restaurant. 707 Graves Mill Rd. Lynchburg, VA. Blue Ridge Chapter, National Railway Historical Society Minutes of Meeting - March 11, 2009 President Rick Johnson called the meeting to order at 7:35 p.m. at Charley’s Restaurant and welcomed 22 members and 3 guests. Guests included Mollie Mayhew; Roy Evans; and Dale Rumsmoke’s daughter, Rebecca. Chris Schieck is still undergoing treatment in Houston and sends greetings to everyone. The February minutes were approved as distributed and there was no Treasurer’s report. Norris Deyerle reported briefly on the C&OHS Train Show in Clifton Forge, thanking Barry and Rite Moorefield for setting up on Saturday and Tom Ledford who helped on Sunday. The table sold $85.00 worth of chapter merchandise left from Lynchburg Rail Day. There were no other reports except a comment about the need to resolve the web page fees as soon as possible. Rick announced that Fred Mayer had the April program on W estern railroads and the Fun Meeting is scheduled on March 25. DVDs will be shown, Ed Fielding has one on Echo Canyon and Soldiers’ Summit. Kurt Reisweber had the evening’s program featuring his recent photos along the former N&W and SRR routes in the southeast. Before adjournment Lee Hawkins related his encounter with the Botetourt County Sheriff’s Department at Blue Ridge, Va. and warned members about heightened enforcement along the right of way there. Kurt Reisweber reported on what he knew about the recent developments on Kodak slide processing and Mollie Mayhew won the 50/50. Meeting adjourned at 7:55 pm. Tom Ledford, Secretary National Director’s Page By Norris Deyerle W hen we can, Lee Hawkins and I go down to Kemper Street Station on Saturday nights to see our newsletter editor and friend Garland Harper and watch Amtrak Train #19, “The Crescent”, arrive. A little after 7:00 pm on Saturday April 4, 2009, I was talking with Lee over the phone about nothing of real importance. Lee wanted to know if I was “going down to the station”. I was trying to decide if I was going to bed, be a “Real Man” and watch Villanova vs. North Carolina in the second game of the “Final Four” basketball tournament or go by and pick up Lee and head to the station. I told Lee that I would think about it and call him before 9:00 p.m. Just before 9:00 p.m. I called Lee and told him that I would be by to pick him up a little after 9:00. W e headed to Kemper Street Station. I’ll paraphrase what my preacher Corey Ingold says. “Sometimes more important than getting all the facts straight is listening to the telling of the story”. Great stuff, isn’t it? I’ll continue with my story. W hen Lee and I arrived at the station, Garland was unusually busy. W hen he got a free moment, he told us that there was a private car on the rear of #19. It was the “Obama Car”. The “Georgia 300”. W ell, I knew then that I had made the correct decision to go to the station! I really would have loved to see the inauguration train when it was headed to W ashington, DC with Obama and Biden. At least, this was going to be my chance to see the observation car that carried these famous gentlemen. W hen I was thinking about writing this story, I wanted to come up with a name for it. All that I could think of were titles that already had been used such as “Confessions of a Train Spotter” or “Train W atchers’ Diary”. Garland calls his railroad buddies “Buffs”. So, I decided to call this story “Observations of a Buff”. Observations of a Buff 2 Just after Garland announced that “Amtrak Train #19, ‘The Crescent’, would be arriving in the station in just a few minutes and for the passengers to make their way to the north end of the platform to board”. A black man and his daughter walked up to the counter to purchase a ticket. Garland politely asked them if they were buying a ticket for the train that was now arriving in the station. They told him no. He told them that he had to go help the passengers that were getting off of the train and would be back shortly. Soon Amtrak locos #207 and #12 pulled “The Crescent” to a stop right in front of us. Garland performed his duties and I noticed he was talking with the man and his daughter that had walked out on the platform as the passenger train was pulling out of the station. Garland told them that the car that President Obama rode in on the Saturday prior to the inauguration was on the rear of the train. At that point, they were obviously more interested in the train. I noticed how their eyes were fixed on the “Georgia 300” as it went by. It made me happy that I was sitting there on the bench watching what was going on in front of me. By not having a camera with me that night, I could really see what was happening around me. Fortunately, Garland did have his camera with him and the grab shot he made as #19 sped away from the station is reproduced in the “Sightings” section below. The last time I saw O. Winston Link speak was at a Roanoke Chapter, NRHS, Christmas Banquet. He started reading from his personal diary. As tears started running down his checks, he read the names of the people that he got to know that were in his famous photos along with the dates and places. The people were obviously more important to him than his famous photographs. I never saw him tear up when he showed his awesome photographs or played his recordings. He was a people person. That’s what made Winston a great railroad historian as well as one of the best railroad photographers of all time. Then I started thinking of all of the African-Americans that had worked for the Southern Railway at the formerly Jim Crow segregated train station that I was at. I thought about the cooks, porters and crewmen that worked on the Southern Crescent during the so named “Glory Days of Railroading”. I’ll never forget the story and photos that our Chapter President Rick Johnson shared with us about the Southern Crescent wreck at Elma, Va. on Sunday December 3, 1978. That’s the passenger train wreck where the 37 year old black cook, Ned Haynes of Atlanta, was severely burned when the hot stove trapped him in the dining car. It’s truly amazing what you’ll think about when you seeing history, both past and present, all around you. As the black man and his daughter turned around towards Lee and me, I could see that they were smiling. The young lady went back into the station’s waiting room with Garland to purchase the ticket for her dad. As the observation car “Georgia 300” went by, Lee was singing “Georgia”. He and the man were talking about who sang that song. Lee asked him if Ray Charles sang it. The man told him yes, but it wasn’t about a train car. He said it was about a woman and Ray Charles liked women very much. We all were laughing. When I got home I heard on the late night news that April 4, 2009, was the 41st anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. {January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968}. Hearing that, with what I had just seen at the station inspired me to share this story with you. Dr. King would have been 80 years old if he was alive today. I think his wish for equality for all peoples is closer to becoming a reality than ever. We’ve still got a way to go. Remember to treat others as you would want to be treated. Thank God, racial equality both on the railroad, our schools, in government, etc. has improved. Who knows, it may have even been a black engineer, male or female, in the cab. At least today it could have been. My biggest regret is that I didn’t ask the man his name. Winston would have. Hope to see many of you at this month’s meeting. Fred Mayer is presenting our show. I’ll also give you an update on Lynchburg Rail Day 2009. Thanks for letting me share my thoughts with you. Moo Governor Kaine on board with Lynchburg rail agreement By Ray Reed, Lynchburg News & Advance. Published: April 1, 2009 A who’s-who list of political leaders and executives filled a tent at the Kemper Street Station in Lynchburg on W ednesday to watch Gov. Timothy M. Kaine and Norfolk Southern Chairman W ick Moorman sign Virginia’s first agreement to support passenger trains. “W e are entering a new era” in passenger rail service, Kaine said, adding that $8.4 billion in federal stimulus money will boost rail transit nationwide.
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