On March 30, 2017 ScottMacNeil wrote in Turret Memories Facebook Group: "Remembering JimDeYoung's 70th birthday today. The caption from this old newspaper clipping reads:
- JimDeYoung, a steward aboard one of the last Via Rail dayliners to serve rural Nova Scotia, looks over the heads of some of the hundreds of children who have travelled the rails over the past two weeks before passenger service ends on the old Dominion Atlantic and Intercolonial routes.