I apologise that I forgot to change the subject line when I sent my last e-mail. I am sending it again, for fear the one person who would know the answer to my railroad question might have deleted it when it came with a heading suggesting that it was about Rosette School! "Wilda W. Morris" wrote: > I have a Lincoln County railroad question. Some years ago my sister > encouraged members of the family to write memories of our grandparents. > My cousin wrote: > > "Grandfather was telling me stories one day. This one I remember > well. He told me, `the railroad between Lincoln Grove and Selina, > Kansas was so crooked that the engineer could reach out of one window > when going around a curve and hand a plug of tobacco to the brakeman in > the caboose. The brakeman would take a chaw, go to the other side when > going around the next turn, and hand the plug back to the engineer." > > I am sure he meant Salina, not Selina. But would this describe a route > between Salina and Lincoln, or between Salina and Sylvan Grove??? > > Wilda Morris