IN MY OWN WORDS
by D.R. Yoder
Learning the job by the day on the
Grand Trunk Western
BLUE ISLAND OPERATOR —
AND CREW CALLER
Grand Trunk Western 4-8-4 No. 6321 starts down the main out of Chicago,
bound for Battle Creek, Mich., in February 1957, just a few weeks before
the author’s railroad career started on the GTW. John Pickett