Show conductor retires so he can take long trip lakewood ohio richard filley sixty seven la Is enjoying his first extended e x vacation in 30 10 years filley recently closed his thirtieth year as a passenger conductor for the big four rall railroad rond the veteran railroad man can remember a lot of interesting incidents incident connected with the railroad he recalls when the passenger service was suspended during president garfielda Garf Gar lelda fields funeral in 1881 thousands of people were conveyed in coal cars he relates he e also remembers unloading passengers on the roof of the station in dayton ohio during the flood in 1913 1013 and living atop the station for four days das with ills his passengers he swam to the station restaurant for bread and apples their only food he says its odd he said but a man works all his life and hardly realizes the job keeps him from doing sonie some things he hits has always wanted to do I 1 want to hoe my garden and go to hall ball games I 1 also want to make a trip to the west coast to portland and im going to do that now |