TRANSCRIPTIONS BY BRUCE CHAPMAN AND COLIN CHURCHER
OF ARTICLES
BY AUSTIN CROSS IN THE OTTAWA CITIZEN




'CROSS TOWN - REQUIEM ON RAILS Published 6 April 1960

From two people, 500 miles apart, I got almost an identical clipping. Walter McMillan, 82 Sparks. Street, sent me a Detroit paper showing Grand Trunk Western engine No. 6319 making the last steam passenger run in the U.S.A. between Durand and Detroit.
At the same time, ex-Citizen staffer Don Brown sent a similar clipping, mournfully chronicling these obsequies of the Iron Horse

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