Thank you, G.J. Heffernan, for your recounting of what the Newfoundland railway means (“LETTER: City is off-track with museum decision,” Jan. 2.)
On a recent visit home to St. John’s, I spent several hours at the museum and wondered how I had missed so much history before. Like many older St John’s residents, I had seen the mummified remains and ship replicas on school tours to the old museum. The only thing we were told about the railway was the old joke about a woman asking to get off the train to give birth who hadn’t been pregnant when she started her journey.
I sincerely hope that the marvelous folks at The Rooms will have the opportunity to enfold the railway history and stories from its people and help preserve what the railway meant to so many.
Kim Taylor
Grass Valley, Calif.
by way of east-end St. John’s
