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Erwin Smith, porter aboard the Champion, the train that
makes the 1,264 mile journey between New York City and
St. Petersburg, Fla. (API
Who waves
night light
at train?
ABOARD THE CHAMPION (AP) — Every trip this
grand old train makes is a sentimental journey.
Rolling south through the hills of southern Virginia, just
before midnight, when the passengers are bedded down
and all is quiet except for the lullaby of the rails, the
crewmen pause in their chores and move to the windows
on the port side of the train.
They know where to look, and when. Right on schedule,
in the darkness of the countryside, a light glows and
waves. With their flashlights, the trainmen wave back.
Another silent rendezvous kept, they return to their
duties.
“None of us knows his name,” said Erwin Smith, a
sleeping car porter. “Some of the oldtimers say he’s been
waving at this train for 20 years. I know he hasn’t missed
in the two years I’ve been on this run.
“On the return trip, in the daytime, we see him. He’s an
old man in a wheelchair, sitting on the porch. He waves;
we wave back. That’s all there is to it. He’s a friend.”
Would that the Champion were visited with such
friendly loyalty all along its route.
“Outside Baltimore we can almost count on having
something broken. Kids throw rocks at us, big rocks. It’s
bad at Philadelphia, too. We have to see that no
passengers are between cars or near windows that aren’t
unbreakable. Nobody’s been hurt that I’m aware of, but it
sure is dangerous.” .
For the most part, passengers aboard the Champion are
unaware of either friend or vandal.
All they are aware of is one of the most pleasant trips in
the land for anyone who loves the romance and lore of
railroads, not to mention the husky bounce and sway, the
fleeting landscape, the musical fugue played by steel rails
and steel wheels, which is to say anyone with a soul who
truly believes that getting there is half the fun.
“It’s like eavesdropping on people’s lives,” a passenger
aboard the Champion remarked the other day. “You
catch a glimpse of strangers as you pass, then you’re
gone.”
The strangers you pass aboard the Champion live in
towns along the Atlantic seaboard, along a 1,264-mile path
between New York City and St. Petersburg, Fla.
The original Champion was one of the first streamlined
passenger trains in America. It started service in 1939, the
premiere train of the Atlantic Coastline Railroad.
Through all the mergers and sad decline of passenger
trains, the Champion survives. Since 1971. it has been
operated by Amtrak, whose purpose is to perpetuate
passenger trains. And the irony is that the Champion will
soon be reduced to service only eight months of the year.
Well, you can’t argue with economics. Somebody ought
to explain that to an old man sitting on his porch in
southern Virginia.
Judge Henderson
sentences people
in gas theft case
NEWNAN, Ga. (AP) - The
former mayor, police chief and
assistant police chief of Tall
apoosa, Ga., were sentenced
Wednesday to terms in federal
prison for their parts in an in
terstate gasoline pipeline tap
ping scheme.
U.S. District Court Judge Al
bert Henderson Jr. handed
down sentences for 21 persons
who either pleaded guilty or
were convicted June 30 for
various charges stemming from
taps on two pipelines in Georgia
and Alabama.
Former Tallapoosa Mayor
Sam Alta Dryden was sen
tenced to 20 years in prison for
convictions of conspiracy, in
terstate transportation of stolen
goods and two counts of theft of
gasoline—the stiffest sentence
Henderson handed down
Wednesday.
“You have been accused of
masterminding this scheme,"
Henderson told Dryden before
sentencing. “I always felt that a
man of your intelligence would
be well off financially if you had
stayed on the right track.
“Since I feel there is no hope
of rehabilitation, I must be con
cerned with the protection of
society,” the judge said.
Former Police Chief Jimmy
Doyle Folsom was sentenced to
five years in prison for con
spiracy and interstate trans
portation of stolen goods, and his
nephew, former Asst. Police
Chief Robert Lee Folsom, was
sentenced to six months in pris
on and 4% years on probation
for conspiracy.
Buran Robinson, a former
Tallapoosa city councilman,
was sentenced to three years in
prison and two years on proba
tion for conspiracy and inter
state transportation of stolen
goods.
Each of the four resigned
their posts shortly after being
convicted, and have appealed
their sentences.
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