9000 miles on a Pullman Train and J J Restein

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Over on Archive.org is an 1898 book that has been digitised and is called "Nine Thousand Miles On a Pullman Train - An Account of a Tour of Railroad Conductors From Philadelphia to the Pacific Coast and return" by M M Shaw.  The purpose of the trip was to attend the 26th session of the Grand Division of the Order of Railroad Conductors in Los Angeles, California in May of 1897.  About 80 people were the tour.  They were Pennsylvania railroad employees and some wives.  Leaving from the Broad Street Station in Philadelphia and sweeping south through Texas to Los Angeles and back through Montana etc., the trip took about a month.   They traveled in a five-car vestibule train.  Included in the group was Joe Restein, a conductor from Delmar.  Joe was one of the three people on the train who took many photographs of the trip.  Only a few photographs are in book and there are none of Joe Restein. Joe Restein traveled by himself on this trip without his wife.

Joseph Jackson Restein (1864-1929) was born in Philadelphia to Louis Restein (born in France) and Mary J. Jackson Restein from Philadelphia.  Unlike many men born in this period his middle name of Jackson did not refer to Confederate General Stonewall Jackson but to his mothers maiden name. Joe Restein married Ida White (1872-1948) in 1890.  Her parents were Captain Noah and Sarah White from Salisbury, Maryland.  Joe was working for the railroad, of course, and before 1890 was transferred to Delmar.  He was a passenger Conductor and later was assistant Trainmaster.  The Resteins lived in Delmar until 1909 when he was transferred to Cape Charles to be Trainmaster.  While in Delmar, Annie M. (1893-1972), Carrie White (1894-1986) and Ernest Louis Restein (1896-) were born.

As a sidenote, Ida White's brother; Ernest White was a brakeman on the Baltimore on Eastern Shore Railroad.  In 1891 he was killed at a crossing in Salisbury while coupling cars.  Perhaps Joe and Ida's son born five years later was named after Ernest.  Also her other brother, Archie, in 1871 was jumping from a train and fell backward onto the track and the car ran over his hand amputating three fingers from it.

above Feb 15 1900 The Evening Journal Wilmington Delaware

In 1909 Joe Restein was promoted to trainmaster of the division and transferred to Cape Charles.  As their children came of marrying age in Cape Charles they did so.  Annie married Aubrey Jarvis in 1914.  Carrie married Paul Hodge in 1918 and moved to Danville Virginia. In 1920 Louis married Carolyn King.  Louis had returned from WW1 in Frances about a year before being married. 

above from the Baltimore Sun August 23, 1919

Restein—King

A quiet but very pretty wedding was solemnized on Wednesday, November 10, at the home of Mr. J. Brooks Mapp, in the village of Keller, between Mr. E. Louis Restein, of Cape Charles, Virginia, and Miss Carolyn Frances King, formerly of Gainesville, Florida. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Restein, Mr. Restein being one of the chief officials of the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad. The bride is the daughter of the late William F. King and. of Mrs. Carrie Hack King. The bride wore a blue traveling suit with gray squirrel furs and carried a shower bouquet of bride’s roses and snapdragons. She was given in marriage by Mr. J. Brooks Mapp and was attended by Mrs. Eloise King Mapp, her sister, as matron of honor. Mr. Brenton Tilghman, of Cape Charles, was the groom’s best man, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. F. A. Ridout of the Episcopal Church. Owing to the recent death of the bride’s father the wedding was a quiet one only the near relatives and a few of the most intimate friends of the bride arid groom being present. The bridal couple immediately after the ceremony left for New, York, Niagara Falls and other Northern points of interest. Both the bride and groom are well known throughout the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Maryland and their many friends wish them great happiness.

Peninsula Enterprise, Volume 40, Number 19, 13 November 1920

Joe and Ida continued to live in Cape Charles until his death in 1929.  He was so well known that the railroad put on a special train to carry friends and co-workers to his funeral in Cape Charles.

Joe Restein would take a number of trips in the 1920s to Key West and Cuba, he always traveled alone and it is not known if it was for business or social reasons.  After his death Ida would move to Danville where she would die in 1948.  The name Joseph Jackson Restein continues through today as Ernest Louis Restein named a son after his father and in turn that son named his son Joseph Jackson Restein.