This is really Touching

Try to read through this and not feel affected.

(Hugo is a small Minnesota town).


Funeral, gravesite donated to Hugo family; 2-year-old who loved choo-choos to be buried near train tracks

Choo-choo fan, 2, will be laid to rest near train tracks

By Megan Boldt and Mary Divine

Pioneer Press

Article Last Updated: 05/29/2008 11:42:09 PM CDT


Nathaniel Prindle loved choo-choo trains.



The 2-year-old who died in a tornado Sunday in Hugo will be buried
Monday in a country graveyard his family chose for a special reason.

HUGO, Minn. — A 2-year-old boy who was killed when a
tornado tore through Hugo was laid to rest in a country cemetery his
family chose because freight trains regularly rumble past.


The Canadian Pacific Railway had two locomotives and a caboose
waiting on the tracks just south of the graveyard. When the service
concluded and dozens of orange and white helium balloons had been
released, the bright-red train and brown caboose slowly rumbled past
the grave of Nathaniel Prindle, who loved choo-choo trains.

Nathaniel drowned when the tornado lifted him and dropped him into
a nearby pond May 25. His parents, Gerard "Jerry" and Christina
Prindle, and 4-year-old sister, Annika, were trapped in the rubble.


Annika remained in critical condition Monday. Gerard Prindle
attended his son's funeral at Eagle Brook Church in White Bear Lake in
a wheelchair. At the cemetery, members of the Hugo Fire Department
carried him to the gravesite.


Mournful sounds of a bagpipe filled the little country
cemetery as the funeral procession arrived under leaden skies. And with
an engineer at the controls, the Canadian Pacific train sat on the
nearby tracks, waiting for a little boy.The engineer saluted Nathaniel with a long blast from the train whistle

RockinDeano wrote:Try to read through this and not feel affected.

Dude, why'd you have to post this?
The day I heard about Steven Curtis Chapman's daughter being killed, I was bummed all day, on lunch I went and read the paper.
I turned to the the obituaries and the first thing I saw was an 11-month old boy staring at me. His face was all bloated with tubes going in his nose and mouth. Fuckin' lost it!

RedWingFan wrote:

RockinDeano wrote:Try to read through this and not feel affected.

Dude, why'd you have to post this?
The day I heard about Steven Curtis Chapman's daughter being killed, I was bummed all day, on lunch I went and read the paper.
I turned to the the obituaries and the first thing I saw was an 11-month old boy staring at me. His face was all bloated with tubes going in his nose and mouth. Fuckin' lost it!

I posted it because I felt that many people here in America think all corporations are evil and also that we are fortunate to have what we have.

Hats off to the CPR.

Stories like this just rip my heart out. It's good to know that CPR has a heart. What a wonderful gesture that was for the family to see and hear.

RockinDeano wrote:

RedWingFan wrote:

RockinDeano wrote:Try to read through this and not feel affected.

Dude, why'd you have to post this?
The day I heard about Steven Curtis Chapman's daughter being killed, I was bummed all day, on lunch I went and read the paper.
I turned to the the obituaries and the first thing I saw was an 11-month old boy staring at me. His face was all bloated with tubes going in his nose and mouth. Fuckin' lost it!

I posted it because I felt that many people here in America think all corporations are evil and also that we are fortunate to have what we have.

Hats off to the CPR.

Wow, Dean. With your political leanings, I never saw that statement coming. I'm impressed. And serious. Maybe I'm just too critical. But I agree it is nice to see companies, and people, disregard all the bullshit occasionally, and acknowledge what's really important.

Mournful sounds of a bagpipe filled the little country
cemetery as the funeral procession arrived under leaden skies. And with
an engineer at the controls, the Canadian Pacific train sat on the
nearby tracks, waiting for a little boy.The engineer saluted Nathaniel with a long blast from the train whistle

Awww very cool of CPR to do that.

Inspiring, yet very touching....

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That was a beautiful story. Now I'll think about him whenever I see a train.

(When my brother in law died last year, my sister had his gravestone made in the shape of an engine and put one for herself next to it as the caboose. He loved trains - was killed in a car accident. My sister being alive is a miracle.)

I have tears in my eyes. Very touching indeed.