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Jimmy,

Was the ole 'Mean Dean' as I heard him called a couple times. He just 
retired what 6 or 7 years ago? If so I am sure he will indeed be missed. 
I met him several time and always enjoyed his humor. Actually told me 
once when the subject of Bill Sweet came up and my relation to him 'Boy 
if you hire out, I sure as Hell hope your better then Bill was, he 
couldn't switch his way out of a paper bag if he tried' or something 
along those lines.

Nathan

Nathan Simmons
trainman51 at gmail.com
http://www.t-51.org
KI4MSK

On 7/7/2013 05:02, NW Mailing List wrote:

> For those of you in the Roanoke area, in case you missed it, former 

> Shenandoah Div. Conductor W.D. (Doug) Dean passed away on July 3rd. 

> Doug started his N&W career on Roanoke Terminal and later transferred 

> to the Roanoke District of the Shenandoah Div. from where he retired. 

> Doug was quite the character and the consummate Brakeman/Conductor.

>     As Joesy Wales would have said: "I rode with him. I got no 

> complaints."

>

> Jimmy Lisle

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