So many are the blessings, to count is futile. Time and again distinguished members of the combined alumni association of The Roanoke Times and old afternoon World-News have with their support lifted this column from the humdrum. This morningâs contributor emails us under letterhead from Richmond branch offices of corporate parent Lee Enterprises. Randy Jessee is a newspaper lifer. Recent reference here to the bygone Norfolk & Western Railway youth organization Pocalier Club caught his attention. âI became a member sometime in early 1959, when I was in the sixth grade in Richlands,â he began. The club pledge followed a roundabout track. The prompt was clear. The young man was fascinated by a rail era that was disappearing faster than a line of eastbound coal cars heading down the mountain.