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" Kudos to Jack Keefe for his great column! Once again, he was at the Chatsworth Historical Society's TPW caboose which has joined the "relics" of railroading on a strip of track on Locust Street(some towns call theirs railroad avenue) in the center of town. Jack tells mostly surprized visitors railroads no longer use cabooses at the end of trains and shares his vast knowledge of area railroad history. "Back when" CHS, in cooperation with the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railrway, ran that very caboose east to Ford/Livingston County road and the site of the 1887 train wreck, Jack was the "conductor/tour guide."

I want all to know that Jack is a historian/reporter with long & deeper experience. Jack is like a lot of older news people whose decades of public service is
not sufficientl appreciated. Jack's "history" is packed with versatility, expertise, eclectic interests and continued study. Meantime, we get minimally, if at all, too many qualified "experts" making fortunes "reporting" "anchoring" "opining" and "columnizing" in television locally and in syndication and on cable and satellite tv. Keep up the great work Jack. "