Thomas Saxon
Position Held
Section Worker
Railroad Line
Illinois Central
Years Worked
1976
dob 2/7/56
A long time Fulton KY resident, Thomas Saxon moved from Mayfield KY to Fulton KY in 1974. He signed on with Illinois Central Railroad and worked...... Scroll past photos for full story.
Thomas Saxon's Kentucky Oral History Commission Interview is currently being transcribed. The video will be available for viewing in the Fulton KY Library shortly.
A long time Fulton KY resident, Thomas Saxon moved from Mayfield KY to Fulton KY in 1974. He signed on with Illinois Central Railroad and worked 3 ½ months as a temporary Section Worker in 1976. He loved the worked and greatly regretted, through a series of unusual circumstances, missing a call to become a full time employee. He notes that he would have greatly enjoyed a career with the railroad and would hope to yet be working with them today had fate fallen differently.
A thirty year employee of the Water and Gas Division of the City of Fulton, Thomas is an avid model railroader who speaks fondly of his childhood Lionel Train Set that, overtime was traded up to an extensive HO Scale set; and he volunteers weekly as the Model Train Master for the Twin Cities Railroad Museum in South Fulton Tennessee. The museum has four, soon to be up and running, model sets which includes an impressive City of New Orleans and City of Miami set and a unique partial Silver City of New Orleans set. Saxon can be found on a tall stool running the largest of the museum’s model trains for the enjoyment of resident and visitors. He describes this O-Gauge set, as one of the most popular representatives of the post war train period and the transition from the steam to the diesel eras. The museum is working with a model set maker and Saxon is looking forward to the planned layout, replicating the original Fulton station with depot and landscaping to scale.
A thirty year employee of the Water and Gas Division of the City of Fulton, Thomas is an avid model railroader who speaks fondly of his childhood Lionel Train Set that, overtime was traded up to an extensive HO Scale set; and he volunteers weekly as the Model Train Master for the Twin Cities Railroad Museum in South Fulton Tennessee. The museum has four, soon to be up and running, model sets which includes an impressive City of New Orleans and City of Miami set and a unique partial Silver City of New Orleans set. Saxon can be found on a tall stool running the largest of the museum’s model trains for the enjoyment of resident and visitors. He describes this O-Gauge set, as one of the most popular representatives of the post war train period and the transition from the steam to the diesel eras. The museum is working with a model set maker and Saxon is looking forward to the planned layout, replicating the original Fulton station with depot and landscaping to scale.