Love - The Odessa Record "By Your Relative"

Hi, here I am again.

Continued from last week “The Schibels.”

I asked Jeff Schibel what he remembered about the Batum grain elevators and who the closest neighbors were? His answer for the Batum grain elevators was “the “boxcars” the Odessa Trading Co. would load with grain and then have them taken west toward Moody Ruff, Moses Lake, Washington and for neighbors, there were the Webers, Finks, Heimbigners, Melchers, Kageles. Jeff also mentioned the railroad tracks were not maintain very well and before they were finally removed, the condition of the track and its road bed was deplorable..

Jeff...