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Building America
“Building America” Just like in the tale of John Henry’s Race This railroad continues to change its pace Gone ar...
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The Lambert Railroad Family.
As far back as I can remember, my grandfather, my father, myself and my son have worked for the railroad. First with t...
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Cheyenne, Wyoming
My dad was a fireman on the extra board and had to go to Cheyenne, Wyo., to work on account there were no positions with...
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I miss the steam engines!
My grandfather was a station agent for the CB&Q, and that’s the road that served my hometown of Scottsbluff, Neb., but...
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My Mom As A Railroad Wife
My Dad, Terrell Allen Perry married my Mom in June 1940. He started to work for the Missouri Pacific in Poplar Bluff, M...
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Railroad Career Starts in High School
I joined the railroad as a way to save money for college, but in the process was building a legacy that began with my gr...
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From Displaced Person to Section Hand and Weed Burner
My father, Herbert Tast, and his family emigrated from Germany to the Yutan area in mid-1952 to start a new life in Amer...
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Railroad careers and heredity
A few years after being hired at Union Pacific in Omaha, I discovered my Great-grandfather Henry Steinbeck had worked fo...
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No Greater Job
In 1929, Robert (Bob) L. Marks began his UPRR career, and until his untimely death in 1971, Bob demonstrated his profoun...
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Railroad Brat
My Great Grandfather, John W. Hamilton was a switchman for the MOP in 1900 and lived in Thebes, (Alexander County), Ill....
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Long-Time Fan
Growing up in Portland, Ore., in the 1950s the railroad bug bit me early on. I read just about every railroad book in t...
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Lifetime Memories
Reviewing my comments I see that I may have included railroad lines that may not have been the Union Pacific, but for me...
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A RAILROAD MAN
Bill Bonham was a brakeman, a railroad man was he. He loved the trrains, he loved his run, he loved the old U.P. He hir...
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My grandfather George Dunning McConnell
My grandfather was George Dunning McConnell. He was born in 1911 and died in 1994. At age 15, (back in the days of not...
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Mr. Keister and the Yellowstone Special
Some of the fondest childhood memories I have of the Union Pacific were back in the late 1950s to early 60s in Rexburg, ...
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My Father, A True Union Pacific Man!
I am proud to be the son of a great Union Pacific father! My daddy, Overton Zinn, worked at the Ogden Yard Office in m...
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HAPPY RAILROADER
I started work on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, St Louis, Mo., in June 1956, in the Car Accounting department. I worked...
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Tribute to My Father
My father Louis "Eddie" Nave, started working for the Union Pacific Railroad in 1950 in Las Vegas, Nev., running from La...
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