Last year, I posted a photograph of a rather strange metal sign (above) that I had discovered dangling by chains from the underside of the Frisco Bridge. Who was S.L. Lipe, I wondered, and why was he memorialized in this unusual fashion?
Well, a reader named Phoebe researched back issues of a publication called “All Aboard,” which is the company newsletter for the Springfield Division of the BNSF (Burlington Northern & Santa Fe) Railroad, and in the July 2004 issue she actually turned up an obituary for Scotty L. Lipe. Here’s what it says:
