!["The nice thing about a [passenger] train is you can see what the country looks like -- you can look right out into people's backyards," says historian, author, and retired railroad employee Jim Fredrickson, who has amassed a collection of passenger train memorabilia. (PHOTO BY TODD MATTHEWS)](https://www.tacomadailyindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/070208_passenger_train1_web.jpg)
In the early-1940s, as a teenager at Stadium High School, Jim Fredrickson was a common fixture near Union Station in…
Each year the Chamber’s George Francis Train International Business Commemorative recognizes a Tacoma-Pierce County business leader or company who has…
