After being on the phone for almost an hour last night to my tech support fellow, I got my email woes taken care of. Funny, I had to wait on hold for him for 50 minutes, but once he got on the phone with me, it only took 3 minutes to fix the problem. So I should be able to chug out some more of these good old news stories to you once again. Speaking of chugging -- here's the next installment of the Old Railroad News! >From the Altoona Tribune, Thursday, 22 January 1942: The fund for the B. of R. T., Iron Eagle, a war plane to be presented to Uncle Sam, has been started. Those who have donated so far are Conductors McLaughlin, McHugh,Milne, Brakeman Stayberg and Yard Foreman, L. B. Schultz. Anyone going to Marshfield with a train of pulp wood will be interested in the fact that C. N. W. 109 is due at Marshfield at 11:45 p.m. There is no change in the leaving time. Mr. Becker who has just retired from railroad service has worked nights so long he can't sleep when its dark. "Have to have daylight before I can sleep," said Emil, and that makes a long evening for me. Its always hard to form new habits but cheer up, I am sure you will soon be enjoying your pension as the others who have retired. John Duncan, Jr. was killed 25 years ago Jan 19th 1942. Pensioned passenger conductor J. D. Condit died in Minneapolis on Sunday morning, Dec. 12, 1937, not Dec. 12, 1934, as was tated in last week's issue of the Tribune, also pensioned fireman Dennis O'Gardy, who died in Minnapolis Saturday nigh, Dec. 11, 1937, fired engine for pensioned engineer John Clune, Sr., not John Cline, Sr. Engineer John Clune retired from service in 1929 and resides in Merrillan. He was born on April 30, 1856. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I may be switching gears here for a while. There's lots of Altoona news that may be of interest to someone, so for the next few days I'm gonna be posting that news. I hope it will be a help to someone. -- Nance