A NEW DONATED TRAIN TO THE BSVR?

     

    This is news to me, the Kornerman, and I don't have much information to pass on BUT I was tipped, via email, that the Union Pacific Railroad has donated an old Chicago and Northwestern 401 train to the Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad. Included in the email was a beautiful picture of this train, although it was taken when the train was very new, many years ago. I'm told that the engine was sitting in Council Bluffs Thursday but it was "cut off" from the rest of the museum train that was coming across the Iowa Interstate Friday morning. Originally, the 401 was supposed to arrive in Boone Thursday but, perhaps, it came to the BSVR yesterday (Friday). A late picture was also included in the email.......but don't expect the current engine to look as beautiful as the earlier picture. Many years have passed.

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    Recently, we've had some jawing about the railroad and Percival's and now, a bit about Archway and Quinn's, courtesy of John Kueck, BHS-61. John wrote, "While I was in college, Archway Cookies installed a new oven. I was one of several young men recruited to assist in the installation for approximately one week. It paid very well. Our job was to insert the fiberglass insulation inside the oven's walls. Think of a very long metal structure (square tube-like) with a double wall. We were told to wear long sleeves and shower once we got home. That advice became obvious after the first day. We crawled inside the oven and inserted the fiberglass in a few openings designed for that purpose. It was a tedious, warm job in a small enclosed space that probably only young, money-hungry guys would do!"

    He added, "perhaps from years at working at Quinn Wire and Iron doing dirty foundry work I was used to wearing long sleeves and to shower each evening and let the water wash the dirt off of me. That is what I did the first night after installing the fiberglass. A few guys did not have long sleeves, thus, accumulated fiberglass on their arms. While I survived with minimal skin irritation, several guys had severe skin irritation from exposing their skin and then grinding the fiberglass into their skin by not washing properly. A couple of guys never returned after that first day. I remember the vendor and supervisor instructed and supervised  ONLY. I wonder why?"

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    At least most of the time, we Iowans have enjoyed the national/international publicity provided by famous former residents of our state. Most good but, perhaps, some bad. Herbert Hoover, Mamie Eisenhower, Ashton Kutcher, Chloris Leachman, Hillary Swank, Nile Kinnick, Marilyn Maye, John Wayne, Bob Feller, Roger Williams, Johnny Carson quickly come to mind.I know there are many others. Once in awhile, we find that some of those "others" are prominently shown on national TV these days but we may not have realized were once Iowa residents.

    Politicians are much in the news now and I, the Kornerman, discovered a couple that I and, perhaps, you, were completely unaware of the fact that they are former Iowans. On the Democratic side, there's Eric Swalwell, a California Congressman, who is seen on TV every so often. Swalwell was born and raised in Sac City, Iowa and Dublin, California. Then there's Kari Lake, who's been all over TV lately, due to her hotly contested but losing battle for the Arizona governorship. Lake grew up in Iowa, graduating from North Scott, Eldridge high school where her dad was the head football coach. Later, she earned a degree in communications and journalism from the State University of Iowa. Before making a run for Governor, she was a long time TV anchor at a Phoenix station.

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