{"id":79,"date":"2008-05-25T14:45:44","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T23:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/koponenalaska.wordpress.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2008-05-25T14:45:44","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T23:45:44","slug":"niilo-rides-the-rails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Niilo Rides the Rails!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Saturday, as Niilo\u00a0came in view of puffing 109-year-old steam Engine\u00a01 as it drew out of the station,\u00a0the conductor, engineer, and coal-shoveler waved enthusiastically to him and blew the whistle for their fellow train devotee.\u00a0 Given first-class treatment by Bill Stringer, Bill Schecter, and crew, Niilo and family rode the little narrow-gauge Tanana Valley Railroad by the Chena River.\u00a0\u00a0Bill Stringer sat next to Niilo as Bill Schecter, in the next row, explained to all passengers the history of the little train (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairnet.org\/agencies\/tvrr\/history.html\">http:\/\/www.fairnet.org\/agencies\/tvrr\/history.html<\/a>).\u00a0 Niilo clearly enjoyed\u00a0being with his old buddies\u00a0and surprised some of us with how well he was able to transfer from wheelchair to train and back.\u00a0 Thanks so much, Tanana Valley RR crew!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 The trip wiped him out for hours but after sleeping Niilo walked a few yards almost unassisted.\u00a0 Today (Sunday) he says he will feel up to going out to the front yard in the evening to visit with sauna-time guests.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Thanks to Sherry Lewis, former fellow Chena-Goldstream Volunteer Fire Dept volunteer and Board member, for her visit today bearing jams hand-delivered from Marty Betts in Idaho!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Heather<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Saturday, as Niilo\u00a0came in view of puffing 109-year-old steam Engine\u00a01 as it drew out of the station,\u00a0the conductor, engineer, and coal-shoveler waved enthusiastically to him and blew the whistle for their fellow train devotee.\u00a0 Given first-class treatment by Bill Stringer, Bill Schecter, and crew, Niilo and family rode the little narrow-gauge Tanana Valley Railroad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}