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Monon Employees Past - Present and MRHTS Members Past - Present => Monon Employees Photo's and Stories => Topic started by: Sharon Eberhard on February 15, 2012, 03:48:17 pm

Title: Monon RR Grand Old Man
Post by: Sharon Eberhard on February 15, 2012, 03:48:17 pm

The Gentleman attached is Mr. Edward VanDame, one of the greatest (in my opinion) engineers on the northend.  This photo was taken in l994 less than a year before he took that last train ride.

Title: Re: Monon RR Grand Old Man
Post by: Joe Land on February 15, 2012, 04:07:26 pm

Sharon,
Did Ed have a nickname?

Title: Re: Monon RR Grand Old Man
Post by: Tom Kepshire on February 15, 2012, 04:18:51 pm

I have heard a lot about Ed. All good by the way.

Title: Re: Monon RR Grand Old Man
Post by: Pete Pedigo on February 15, 2012, 04:24:26 pm

Nice picture Sharon and nice thought posting it.

Title: Re: Monon RR Grand Old Man
Post by: Sharon Eberhard on February 15, 2012, 06:23:29 pm

Joe, I am sure he did but I cannot remember.   I have to say it --I miss Cookie.

Title: Re: Monon RR Grand Old Man
Post by: Gene Remaly on February 15, 2012, 08:33:51 pm

Ed was working extra on Southbound local on the airline late one fall afternoon.
A west bound Oldsmobile failed to stop at the Haggarty Lane road crossing and hit the RS-2 battery box
knocking it out of commission. That made the control relays inoperative.
The road was blocked a couple of hours while they waited for an engine from shops to pull the disabled train back to Rossville. They got around the train and set the dead loco out. The replacement crew took the train on South. The engine crew waited in my back yard for a ride back to Lafayette.
That is how I met Ed Vandame.

Title: Re: Monon RR Grand Old Man
Post by: Rick Dreistadt on February 16, 2012, 08:57:37 am

Ed was a good engineer and a good man.  I never heard any complaints from him.(Of course I wasn't in the cab of the engine next to him.)  Rick 

Title: Re: Monon RR Grand Old Man
Post by: Ken Weller on February 25, 2012, 10:31:36 pm

Here is pic of engineers E P VanDame and W F Franks.  Date/location unknown.

Thanks to Sharon Eberhard for all of her recent posting re employees.

--Ken Weller, Dept of Past Personnel