The writer returns to the Rose Terrace Nursing Home on February 16, 1986. Evelyn has brought cookies for her mother in law, but she declines so Evelyn takes them to Ninny. She describes Whistle Stop as just an old railroad town and Troutville as nothing but a bunch of broken down shacks. She's been watching the trains go by for fifty years and never gets tired of it. She likes the dining car best and used to watch the train from New York to New Orleans pass by with the waiters in their starched uniforms. Idgie used to say she rode the train just to eat. Ninny spoke about the down side of living near the tracks like the dishes getting cracked. She remembers a set of dishes she won at a picture.....
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