Chugs & Hugs: Growing Up In A Train Station Volume 2

Chugs and Hugs captures the true story of my father, a determined man who grew up in rural Wisconsin during the depression and World War II. At the age of sixteen, Lyle C. Williams became the patriarch of the family when his father died from a ruptured appendix during the days before antibiotics. Lyle assumed his father’s role as a railroad telegrapher during the fascinating era of steam engines. He handed over his entire meager paycheck to his widowed mother, yet he helped put his three sisters through college. He joined the Soo Line Railroad in 1942 and married the love of his life in 1948. The couple then moved to Minnesota. Together, they raised a family of five while living above the railroad depot. Already like the sounds of this hard working young man and want to read more.