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RAYMOND MILLER JEANNE MASSEY ARDEN DIEHL HAROLD JAMES 15
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As the locomotive chugged around the bend the engineer saw that the signal light at the station ahead was showing green. This station happened to be Millington,Tennessee. This green light meant that the track was clear and that everything was arranged for stopping and picking up any passengers who wanted to ride this new train. The brakeman pushed the brake lever and gradually the train came to a screeching stop. Steam was coming from different valves and black smoke was coming from the smoke-stack which showed that the engine was hot and ready to go on its long journey. The whistle tooted loudly which indicated that the locomotive was ready to go. The passengers should already be on their car, for the conductor was shouting, “All Aboard! All Aboard the M. C. H. S. SPECIAL! It was in September of 1936, that this beautiful streamlined train started off from Millington. Although this MCHS SPECIAL was not a very long train, it was scheduled to pick up many other more modern cars along the way. Eleven more to be exact. It was going to be thrown off its track by having to detour and stop for fuel andwater. When this locomotive started its pilgrimage, its engineer was Mr. Roland. However, we changed engineers in 1940, receiving the one who was to remain with us the rest of our high school career, Mr. Osteen. His hospitality on this journey has been exceedingly generous. None other could have done a better job of leading us along the right tracks through the years, as he has. When the train first came to Millington it consisted of only two parts—the engine and the coal car. But when it pulled out of Millington on its first run it had one car to pull. There are five students of our class who have been passengers on this train continuously through these twelve years. These passengers who boarded Car No. 1 are Louise Armstrong, Jimmy Densford, George Harvell, Lewis Jones, and Edwin Ray. We had to stop over at several stations along the way and put on shows as members of the Kiddie Band, and of course, to recite our ABQ’s. Our hostess in Car No. 1 was Miss Abernathy. The next year our train picked up another car and the hostess for Car No. 2 was the pretty red-head. Miss Rogers. We picked up two new passenger s also at Bartlett and Quito. These two were John Tucker from Bartlett, and Aubrey Clark from Quito. And while the climate was still quite warm we chugged up to Wisconsin and picked up a funny chap in that northern outpost. This passenger was Darrell Austin. Our locomotive was really gaining momentum now as we sped along the way to perfection in education. The next year in Car No. 3 we find our hostess to be Miss Cox. We had to return to Bartlett this year to pickup an interesting passenger, Paul Curlin. As Car No. 4 was hitched on to this train, no passengers boarded this car that would reamin on it to tell the story with us today in our Senior Year. However, we had a very patient hostess to guide us this year. Miss Mitchell. With the addition of Car No. 5, we were forced to detour to Munford for fuel. Along with this fuel we lassoed into our car Clayton Moore. Miss Poyner was the one who fed us that rigid diet of readin', writin’, and ’rithmetic. The hostess in Car No. 6 was Miss Fleming. She prepared us for the more rugged trip ahead of us. Although we did not know it, we were just getting into the station of Memphis. Pattye Lou Woodtransferred to our car here and her transfer slip showed that she hailed from Idlewild. We 16
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