Good gesture by C.P. Rail in the Twin Cities

I don’t know if this was posted elsewhere, but I feel it is worthwhile to bring it up:

From the St. Paul Pioneer Press 6-3-08

http://www.twincities.com/ci_9459445?nclick_check=1

Two-year-old storm victim Nathaniel Prindle is laid to rest Monday

Nathaniel Prindle would have loved seeing - and hearing - the choo-choo train at his funeral.

The 2-year-old, who died during the May 25 tornado in Hugo, was buried Monday in Washington County, just east of his hometown in a country graveyard his family chose because freight trains regularly chug past.

Canadian Pacific officials arranged to have two locomotives and a caboose waiting on the tracks south of the Withrow Cemetery in May Township.

(rest of story found on the paper’s site at the URL above)

http://www.twincities.com/ci_9459445?nclick_check=1

Link activated. Interesting story.

That is a hell of a nice thing for CP to do. I’ve met a few CP guys up here in St. Paul and in Glenwood and they’ve been a great bunch. What a great gesture.