>From the 30 October 1941 edition of the "Altoona Tribune", in the "Railways" column: The "Little Brown Jug" special roared over the Eastern Division Friday night at the speed of 170 miles in 180 minutes -- just 23 minutes more than the time of the famous "400". Not bad for steam engines and twelve heavy cars. While changing engines at Adams the C.N.W. officials were much surprised to hear two sharp blasts of the whistle while the 602 was passing the Pullman cars. Fireman Carl Volkman was watching on his side of the engine, as all good firemen do, and noticed a passenger about to step from the train. He reached for the cord to ring the bell of warning and was so surprised when he pulled the whistle cord insteead of the bell that he pulled twice just to be sure that he was not dreaming. Don't feel bad about it, Carl, because it is better to wake up two hundred than to hurt one. Just a touch of winter and Engineer Silas Jacobson has forgotten his baskets and begins to talk of warmer climate. He is making plans on spending part of the winter in Florida. Just how long his trip is to be depends on Cy and the weather. Silas has a hobby of making Indian baskets and can shape one as fast and as well as any native of this North America. How's the hunting? Wm. Belleshack and L. Kolkind were hunting last Sunday morning. No returns are available. +++++++++++++++++ I'm still wondering if anyone is interested in old sports articles. There are some great stories about some of the area high school football and basketball teams, with lots of names. Who knows, maybe one of your fathers or uncles was a big name in town because of his athletic ability. Do you want to find out? Let me know! -- Nance