Granddaddy was an engineer on the old Seaboard Line railroad.
Wait, what?
The only inheritance I have from my father’s father is his Elgin pocket watch that he used when he worked for the railroad in the early Depression years in OK. My father, who lost his dad when he was 17, kept the watch his whole life, even though it didn’t work. Last year I finally found an old-fashioned watch repairman who specialized in Elgin, and now it ticks loudly in my bedroom.