Tim Lewis, the son of engineer Norman “Jitney” Lewis of the Mount Washington Cog Railway was our speaker this week.  Tim Lewis is a professor, News Director for Electronic Journalism at Northern Vermont University-Lyndon.

Lewis began work on a project looking into the history of the Railway in 1962 with the help of “Jitney” who was then working on the mountain. Jitney and Tim spent the last two years of Jitney’s life working on an operating manual/memoir of the Railway. Now Tim is continuing this project as part of a research project backed by Northern Vermont University—Lyndon.

 

Tim shared a lot of personal history about his father, "Jitney" Lewis and his own history working and living at the Cog Railway.

 

From Norman L 'Jitney' Lewis's obituary in the Valley News in 2017: "For the last two years, he and his son have worked to complete a Manuscript first begun in 1962 of an operating manual for the Mount Washington Railway steam locomotives during the Jitney Years of 1950 to 1967. While Jitney's technical manual and eyewitness story telling section was completed early on, his son morphed the document into an extensive memoir, and with the help of Jitney's Cog family, it became and in-depth look into the little known employees and events during the New Hampshire tourist attraction's lifetime.  The forth draft was completed at the hospital the night Norm died".