Echoes From The Attic and Poems, C.W. Witbeck, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by Don Johnson, Feb. 2001
Typed by Belford Carver
Written by by Edna F. Campbell
Copyrighted by Edna F. Campbell
With special thanks to her family for permission to use her works.

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LOCAL RAILROAD LOVERS ENJOY LOCOMOTIVE RIDE

Railroad buffs from all over the country spent the Labor Day weekend in New 
Orleans.

Faces broadened into nostalgic smiles as steam engines rolled by the feet tapped 
to jazz music during the festivities at the National Railway Historical Society 
convention at the Fairmont-Roosevelt Hotel.

There were approximately 800 delegates.  James Trousdale was convention chairman.

Members of the Southeast Chapter attending were Michael Christensen, president; 
Mrs. C. W. (Bill) Witbeck, Mrs. Dennis Granberry, the W. E. Butlers, the Tommy 
Davidsons, Judge Leon Ford III, Leon Ford IV and Louis Saillard.

Hammond was brought into the limelight with the outstanding display of photographs 
of old railway engines, trains, stations and all types of railroad relics.  The 
collection was from the files of the late C. W. (Bill) Witbeck, founder of the 
Southeast Louisiana Chapter of the national organization and chapter president.

(From ECHOES FROM THE ATTIC, VII, 1973, by Edna Campbell)

(Pic of steam locomotive)