Remembering Old 895 the Baytown steam engine at Roseland Park
Baytown native Chris Buckner recalls the decommissioned Southern Pacific steam locomotive Old 895 kept behind a chain link fence at Roseland Park. He urges protection under a roof with visitor access and notes the engine's wartime history and community memory.
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Roseland Park
Ashbel Smith
Southern Pacific Railroad
Baytown
Roseland
Mom
Red
Milton Lorenz
Jack Jungbluth
Jimmie Carpenter
Houston
Liberty
Dayton
Lauri
Tom
Astrodome
Chris Buckner
Public Works Department
Chris
Letter to the Editor on Roseland Park pool decline
A Baytown reader laments Roseland Park pool closing and recalls youth memories of swimming and high dives. The letter notes aging facilities and urges learning to swim at the Y and Calypso Bay water park, stressing parental responsibility and safety.
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Roseland Park
Buckner
City of
Baytown
Hurricane Carol, Princess Diana deaths and Lincoln patent
Historical recap marks 1954 landfall of Hurricane Carol on Long Island and Connecticut, the 1997 death of Princess Diana in a car crash, and 1849 patent issued to Abraham Lincoln for Manner of Buoying Vessels. It notes 1990 Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey Jr. as first father and son in same Mariners lineup.
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Carol
Long Island
Connecticut
New England
Diana
Princess
Griffey Jr
Seattle Mariners
U.S
Abraham Lincoln
Recalling the 1943 Baytown hurricane memories in 1943 column
Gladys Adcox remembers the surprise 1943 hurricane that damaged her Graham Street home as neighbors sought refuge at her Bergeron residence on Nebraska Street. Meredith Tyer recalls misinformation during the storm, while her family in Lufkin rushed home.
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Gladys Adcox
Graham Street
Pelly
Mom
Daddy
Meredith Tyer
Daugh
Rufus Bergeron
Meredith
San Jacinto Elementary School
Nebraska Street
Bergeron
Lufkin
Baytown Sun editorial and submission contact notice
The Baytown Sun outlines submission policies editorials guest columns and rights to reject unsold content. It lists contact details for Adam Vanelli and the newspaper address fax and email plus delivery times and redelivery calls and hours for the circulation department.
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Baytown Sun
Sun
Adam Vanelli
P.O
Baytown
Sunnews
Baytownsun.com
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Grantham
Texas Avenue
895
James Coburn
Frank Robinson
van Morrison
Itzhak Perlman
Chris Tucker
Ken Griffey
Ken
THE
Columbus Dispatch
Gulf
National Weather Service
Department of War
Col
Joe Duckworth
Army Air Corps
Texas A&m
Bryan Field
Wanda Orton
the Sun
Wanda
Orton
Joe Biden
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Rick
Ted Poe
Dist
John Cornyn
Gene Green
Adam.vanelli
Baytownsun
Joshua Hart
Newsroom
Barack Obama
Fox
Memorial Drive
Texas
Memorial
Fred Hartman
Editorial
Janie Gray
Anglo Pagel
Jim . Formar
M.A. Bengtson Community Member
Jay Eshbach
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