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My first memory was not as pleasant as it should have been. When I was much younger, I lived in house in James City County, VA right next to a branch line that ran into Chisman's Concrete Factory and DOW Chemical Plant. I was awaken around 2:00 in the morning by a freight rolling through from DOW towards the main line. The most I remember was looking at the clock and feeling the walls and windows shake with a low hum. Many times my cousins and friends and I would go climb up the large rock piles at the concrete factory and watch the freight roll through. We were so high, for little kids, that you could look right down inside the hoppers as they rolled by. Whenever my family and I went anywhere in the car, we often passed the Lee Hall Station and there would be the old sleeping Chessie cat freight cars sitting along the lines. Most of my childhood spent watching the Chessie train in Williamsburg was good, but that first night hearing the diesel rumbling by was a little frightening for me as a small boy.
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