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A history conversation with my great Poppa

I never got to meet my grandfather and my mom always talked about how much she liked spending time with him. In this interview, she told me more about the train trips they made together when they had to visit...

My grandfather tells me the stories of his service on the MRS (military rail service) in American based Japan during the Korean War. He gives personal insight into his experience as a young American man in an unfamiliar land during...

My grandfather tells me the stories of his service on the Military Railroad Service in American based Japan during the Korean War. He gives personal insight into his experience as a young American man in an unfamiliar land during wartime.

My grandfather William Joseph Jesse and his history of working on the trains in Chicago, IL

So my dad decided to hop a train near UC Davis. This is an interview of him talking about his experience

My mother Beverly recounts her visit from Chicago to Arkansas in 1944 when she was 4 years old.

This interview was recorded at Friendship village in Kalamazoo mi

Trains, a career, and running a family couldn’t stop Grandpa from graduating college.

My grandfather, Larry Walker, talking about his childhood summers in Green Mountain Springs, CO.

My mom, Christina, describes the time she shared with her grandmother when taking the train to New Mexico.

In this interview we explore my families history with my mother who grew up in Santa Ana in the seventies. She shares details into our family’s past some of the jobs that they did and how she a mexican woman...

I chose to interview Mike Shaw, a retired BNSF employee. I thought that Mike would have good perspective on what being a railroad engineer was really like. Mike not only had pivotal information on what was expected of him and...

We talked about train hopping

I talk to my mom about my great grandfather.

Long before texts, emails, and snapchat, if you wanted to talk to someone you either had to write a letter, or use the phone, and not a cell phone. Jake Freedman interviewed his grandfather Saul Freedman about his mid-high school...

Richard Monson's Childhood and some of the many jobs he held during his life.

Talked with my Grandpa about his childhood and war story.

Chuck Niswonger (who I am named after) recalls his life growing up in the 30's and inlisting in the Navy for World War 2. He met my great grandmother when he was 26 and she was 19. They are 7...