Last Friday my family and I went to
Dreamsville, Oh[a.k.a. Dennison, Oh] on a field trip to a train museum. What's even more amazing is that the museum is housed in 5 train cars! Back in the 1940's 3000 people worked in the train yards!
On the tour we got to watch a mini-movie, sleep in a
pullman bunk, try on the hats of 6[I think] different presidents, be the president, and learn some amazing things about world war 2, world war 1, and Dennison in the 1940's. Did you know during WW1 a dog named Bing[I'm not kidding]was trained to detect bombs, and was so good at detecting bombs, that he had a harness of medals. There's a passenger![below]
During World War 2, Dennison would have been very, very, very, very, very busy. Trains would be pulling in and out most all day and night. The Salvation Army had a canteen in Dennison where they always had something for soldiers passing through on trains to eat. The soldiers would have only had 10-15 minutes to eat, so the ladies who worked in the canteen could not dilly-dally. Over the years signals advanced from raising balls to working lights. In the museum they had model trains that resembled Dennison in the 1940s. After work the three thousand people who worked on the railroad needed something to do and thus a Dennison baseball team was formed. The railroad even had a big stadium put up for the team.
We even saw some hobos!
Last Friday my family and I went to Dreamsville, Oh[a.k.a. Dennison, Oh] on a field trip to a train museum. What's even more amazing is that the museum is housed in 5 train cars! Back in the 1940's 3000 people worked in the train yards!
On the tour we got to watch a mini-movie, sleep in a pullman bunk, try on the hats of 6[I think] different presidents, be the president, and learn some amazing things about world war 2, world war 1, and Dennison in the 1940's. Did you know during WW1 a dog named Bing[I'm not kidding]was trained to detect bombs, and was so good at detecting bombs, that he had a harness of medals. There's a passenger![below]
During World War 2, Dennison would have been very, very, very, very, very busy. Trains would be pulling in and out most all day and night. The Salvation Army had a canteen in Dennison where they always had something for soldiers passing through on trains to eat. The soldiers would have only had 10-15 minutes to eat, so the ladies who worked in the canteen could not dilly-dally. Over the years signals advanced from raising balls to working lights. In the museum they had model trains that resembled Dennison in the 1940s. After work the three thousand people who worked on the railroad needed something to do and thus a Dennison baseball team was formed. The railroad even had a big stadium put up for the team. 
We even saw some hobos! 
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