Local train engineer Joe Burke was featured in the Nov. 1, 1930, edition of the Daily News.

“Tis about two million miles I have driven the likes of this fellow,” he said as he patted his big L&N Pan-American locomotive. His biggest worry in his 48-year career was the automobiles trying to beat him crossing the tracks; his engine alone had struck six, and L&N had just instituted a new signal procedure to warn motorists of oncoming trains. Burke lived in Bowling Green all his life, and passed away in 1941 at the age of 76.

– “Way Back When in Warren County” is compiled by researchers at the Warren County Public Library and appears twice weekly in the Bowling Green Daily News. For more information about the library, visit warrenpl.org.