(E-mail comments regarding the “I Remember Trenton” story published on Friday, June 22 about Jerry McCracken and the Rock Island Railroad)
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“It’s funny, I never rode the rails but I did go with my Pop (grandfather) to meet the Rock Island Rocket so he could get his mail on board. He worked for Armour Meats forever and lived in Trenton. That was Richard F. Collins and that is where my dad was born and raised, Richard D. “Dick” Collins. My brother and I would come see Nan and Pop in the summertime and go see the Kansas City Athletics back in the day. My wife and I took my mother back to Trenton about four years ago and stayed in the old governor’s house and it was a blast but I do miss the depot and its history. But I do read the Republican-Times every chance I get even though I know no one there anymore. Thank you for the walk down memory lane.” — Richard A. Collins
“That was a great story. I left Laredo in 1955, My mother was from Trenton and her father, my grandfather, worked on the Rock Island until his death. Jerry McCracken is so familiar. I think I have heard the name. I just want to say how nice it was to hear stories like that.” — A reader of the newspaper in Arizona