Thanks for the "cool" video, Grey Beard. My great grandfather started his long & prosperous railroad career right there in Grantville as a station agent apprentice back around 1903 or '04. Things were a little different back then: no welded rail, no electronic signaling, no automatic switches nor their heaters, no automatic gate crossings, no video cameras, no cell phones - heck, there were hardly ANY telephones! There were many water tanks every so often along the tracks for a total steam operation and lots of poles, wires and telegraph keys. The depots were heated by coal-fired, pot-belly stoves but the out houses most everyone used were not! There were very few automobiles around but horse drawn buggies and wagons everywhere. If there were any lighted Christmas decorations at all, they would have used candles and no doubt, would've made the local fire brigade nervous (if there was one). We have much to be thankful for. Merry Christmas! HE is the reason for the season.
@HowardKelsey68 Thank you for sharing the history of your grandfather. I would so love to see pictures if you had any. I really like history that has to do with the railroad, and Perry Ks used to have an old train station that I did some research on. Was there an old station in Grantville.
@@GreyBeardTrains Yes, there was a depot in Grantville. I've only found 1 picture of it though. Check out the Grantville, Kansas page on Wikipedia. It sat on the north side of the tracks about halfway through town. You can get a better idea of its location by searching vintage maps of the town. Also, there is 1 photo of the Perry depot & water tank on the 'Kansas Memory' page of the Kansas Historical Society's website, which you probably know about already. I remember many trips in the 60's when the old US-24 Hwy passed right through downtown Perry.
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Thanks for the "cool" video, Grey Beard. My great grandfather started his long & prosperous railroad career right there in Grantville as a station agent apprentice back around 1903 or '04. Things were a little different back then: no welded rail, no electronic signaling, no automatic switches nor their heaters, no automatic gate crossings, no video cameras, no cell phones - heck, there were hardly ANY telephones! There were many water tanks every so often along the tracks for a total steam operation and lots of poles, wires and telegraph keys. The depots were heated by coal-fired, pot-belly stoves but the out houses most everyone used were not! There were very few automobiles around but horse drawn buggies and wagons everywhere. If there were any lighted Christmas decorations at all, they would have used candles and no doubt, would've made the local fire brigade nervous (if there was one). We have much to be thankful for. Merry Christmas! HE is the reason for the season.
@HowardKelsey68 Thank you for sharing the history of your grandfather. I would so love to see pictures if you had any. I really like history that has to do with the railroad, and Perry Ks used to have an old train station that I did some research on. Was there an old station in Grantville.
@@GreyBeardTrains Yes, there was a depot in Grantville. I've only found 1 picture of it though. Check out the Grantville, Kansas page on Wikipedia. It sat on the north side of the tracks about halfway through town. You can get a better idea of its location by searching vintage maps of the town. Also, there is 1 photo of the Perry depot & water tank on the 'Kansas Memory' page of the Kansas Historical Society's website, which you probably know about already. I remember many trips in the 60's when the old US-24 Hwy passed right through downtown Perry.