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1. My granfather was chief light and signal engineer for the N&W, he was a legacy from the Nickel Plate

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun May 7, 2023, 07:46 AM

May 2023

... his offices were in the Terminal Tower in Cleveland. In the fifties I rode on the last Nickel Plate steam engine passenger run from Chicago to Cleveland, '55 or '56.

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