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"A locomotive engineer was a In Hagerstown, a major center for highly respected person in the the Western Maryland Railway, many members ofthe same family were often community. If you drove a employed. In 1952, Ripley's Believe locomotive, you were considered to It Or Not contained an entry on the nine Rhodes brothers, all of whom worked be a person of high esteem .... for the Western Maryland Railway- Most young men, I think, admired five of them as engineers and the other four as firemen. They spent most of someone like this and if you were their time with their co-workers just as setting your goal at some time or we spend most of OUf time with Qur friends on campus. All of us bring another, I think along the line that specific skills and personalities that wherhe most boys at that time would've make us a smooth team. system or we n are a part of a railway wanted to be a locomotive ordinary group on Western Maryland' engineer." - Bill Knode campus, each individual is important to the whole. 60 All Aboard!