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I was at a legion meeting, and got into a conversation with Tony Giaglo, a retired engineer from the old Illinios Central Gulf. He told me a story about a man they called Gunny Sack Joe. Gunny Sack Joe work as a fireman shoveling coal in the day's of steam. He and his wife settled in a town along the ICG near LaSalle Ill. When he married her they agreed to have children till they got there first girl. Well she gave him 6 Boy's before they got that girl. With so many children to feed things were tight in that household. Gunny Sack Joe heated his house with a coal furnace. When he was firing a locomotive through the town that he lived in he would fill the three Gunny Sacks that he carried with him with coal. (Hence the name Gunny Sack Joe.) When the sacks were full he would drop them off the train at the edge of town that he lived in. His two eldest boy's would then retreeve the sacks of coal, and pu***hem home in a wagon. Three sacks of coal do not seem like much but when you do it through out the summer, were talking full coal bin by fall. He cried like a baby when the ICG converted to diesel. Story has it, the next day he went out and bought a fuel oil furnace. Then started showing up to work with buckets. <br /> TIM A
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