November 23, 2010 03:42AM
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No, Ben liked Sid well enough, I think. But Sid was a very colorful character, a Texas panhandle good-old-boy. He had a big heart and loved railroading and the C&TS. He gave up his liquor store, his railroad bar (right across the street from the Santa Fe yards - what better location!), and almost lost his house, to volunteer full-time for 3 months (maybe more) in 1970 and then work for peanuts in 1971 and 1972 (as we all did).
He also had a taste for the liquor himself. I never saw him drink on the job, and was with him virtually all the time. But he had an air about him (yeah, pun intended) that always made Scenic's management suspicious of him. Scenic's management were highly educated and very sophisticated people, and couldn't really relate to him. It was just his country boy manner and kind of awkward walk (he still hurt from the broken ribs he got in a runaway speeder flat episode in 1970 - remember the story the Glass "boys" told a the the reunion, chamafun463?), and the snuff he always had under his lower lip!
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