Who Remembers ( a weekly column for the Weston Democrat, 1930's)

Weston Democrat (March 21, 1933)

When R.L. (Ross) King was among the “trusted and efficient” locomotive engineers of the old West Virginia & Pittsburgh railroad?

One morning as Mr. King was making his regular passenger run from Weston to Clarksburg, his engine and train ran over an old hen and her brood of chicks near Fisher Hill summit. In the evening, after having made two trips with his train over the road that day, Mr. King had the occasion to make some trifling repairs to the engine and got under the train for that purpose, when to his utter astonishment, one of the chicks was found alive and unharmed on the front truck of the engine.  As the train was running at a good rate of speed when it struck the hen and her brood. It is a mystery how the chick came there. Mr. King took the youngster to his home, and could not be induced to part with it. As this occurred thirty seven years ago, it is needless to say that Mr. King does not now have the chick; so the “curious” and doubting will refrain from calling upon him for proof.