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pied by Shiloh Bar & Grill; 3) The nine-mile MKT Nature and Fitness (Rail)
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Trail
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trans-Missouri Katy Trail State Park. Murder Onboard the Fremont Dinner
Train: Not since Ridley Pearson’s 1999 crime novel, The Pied Piper, opened on the Spirit of Washington Dinner Train, has a dinner train played a role in a crime story. Until now. Author David Michael Zink has crafted Murder Onboard the Fremont Din- ner Train, a work called to our attention by Nebraska reader Mike Bartels. Thanks again to the marvels of technology, I was able to get in touch with Mr. Zink, now a resi- dent of Nova Scotia. Here’s what he had to say:
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“The book was writ- ten with one purpose in mind, to preserve the Fremont Dinner Train. I donated all proceeds to that pur- pose. The train’s man- ager and director, Bruce Eveland, sup- plied me with a com- plimentary ticket to a murder mystery night so I could experience taking
that journey
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back in time firsthand, and become familiar with the surround- ings, the rails, and the overall experience of attempting to be one of two hundred individ- uals trying to solve the crime and point out the motive behind it. I do have to point out that our table of four was the only one that successfully solved the entire crime, includ- ing the motive. We were all named ‘Master Detectives.’
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“Now I had enough information to write a murder within a murder mystery. I took it upon myself to incorporate small segments of the original skit, including the names of the screen characters, into my book. And while I only used small segments of the play, I sought permission from the original cre- ator. She, though, was a little upset and would only approve it if she could first read the manuscript. Time was short, and I felt that, by the time I sent the manuscript and she read the story, I would be much too late. So I began hammering at the keys to create a new first murder scene. “When the book was finished, there was-
n’t much time for editing. I had no idea how much time passed since I began rewriting the story. What I do remember, however, is the author’s copy arriving at my doorstep. I was out of coffee that day, so drove four blocks to the store. I was stopped by traffic cops along the intersection of US 77 and highway 30. There, strapped securely to each of three semi trailers, were the lone dining cars that once made transportation possible for thousands of individuals. I was overcome with sadness that the doors on a piece of Fremont’s culture were being closed. A piece of history, lost without a chance of preservation beyond the hope the new owner replicates the same experiences shared by those in Nebraska. The 18-mile
track remains alone in the desolate prairie, waiting the passing of time for another time when dining cars will again fill the purpose.”
About the Book: To celebrate his birth-
day and wedding anniversary simultaneous- ly, Willy’s wife Nancy treats him to a trip on board the Fremont Dinner Train. The occa- sion is one of the railroad’s Murder Mys- tery’s, with guests trying to solve a crime while enjoying an elegant meal on an 18- mile journey to Nickerson, Neb. But tonight there is an actual murder on board as well, and Willy is one of the suspects. He’s accused of killing his boss, Frank Lamonica, who was also onboard the train, and who had just
fired
Willy for not being at work plowing snow in the midst of an unpredicted blizzard raging outside. Frank’s body was found by the engineer at a rail- road crossing, buried in a mound of snow that stopped the train. Many people hated Lamonica, and many of them were onboard the train this night. Officer Matt Wams- ley boards the train and suggests that everybody join in and help solve the real crime. That is of course, if he can convince the pas- sengers that this is not, by any means, a rehearsed part of an act. Stranded miles from nowhere, with no communications avail- able, the guests must
solve a second murder mystery tonight. For more information, or to order the
book, available in hardcover or paperback, go to
http://tinyurl.com/mnsqthj. Norman Rockwell, Railroad Artist?: Three of noted American artist Norman Rockwell’s most famous paintings — Saying Grace,
The Gossips, and Walking to
Church—each one a cover on The Saturday Evening Post, were scheduled to be auc- tioned December 4 at Sotheby’s in New York. One, Saying Grace (http://tinyurl .com/lr6gmsc), originally on the November 24, 1951, cover, was expected to set a new record for a Rockwell work, currently at $15.4 million. In Saying Grace, a small elderly woman and a young boy are pausing to pray before eating in a crowded restaurant, which draws the attention of a variety of men who look on. But it’s what’s going on outside the restaurant that caught my eye. Through the window you can see an active steam locomo- tive servicing facility, complete with a large steam locomotive (the wheel arrangement is unclear), a water tank, and what looks like a Fairbanks-Morse concrete coaling tower. Those onlookers must be railroaders. And if a railroad beanery isn’t enough of a connection between Rockwell’s work and rail dining, there’s Boy in a Dining Car (
http://tinyurl.com/ltq8w6a), a Saturday Evening Post cover from December 7, 1946. That work was created with the cooperation with the New York Central System, which took a dining car out of service for three or four days to loan Rockwell. Who knew Norman Rockwell was a rail- road artist?
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