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Last summer my mom asked me to help sort out some of our old family photos, some of which go back to the '30s or thereabouts. I found something pretty neat buried amongst all the memorabilia. An old train ticket from my mom's dad, who was from Connecticut but was stationed in San Francisco during WW2 between Navy voyages. (The records don't quite specify, but it's likely he was a frogman; they just refer to him as "explosives expert" or something rather vague like that, so it does seem kinda shadowy.) <br /> <br />But anyway, shortly after the war he married my mom's mom in Stockton (in California's Central Valley south of Sacramento), and returned to his home in Connecticut. And I found what was likely the train ticket folder from his return voyage, dated December 1945. Apparently he traveled Western Pacific from Oakland to Chicago, New York Central to NYC, and the New Haven to Old Saybrook, Ct. It's pretty neat how such an item can put history, such as old, long-gone railroad lines, into perspective, particularly when you find direct evidence of your own ancestor traveling that way. At least it sure seems like quite a find to me, since even the then-mighty New York Central disappeared 14 years before I was born.
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