Re: Alamosa January 16 1945

R.E. Houck showed that even low seniority men got work as engineer now and then. He was No. 45 out of 46 promoted engineers on the 1-1-1945 list with a fireman's date of 10-29-1916 and an engineer's date of 1-11-1926. He may not of have gotten the call if Mr. Katschthaler hadn't laid off the San Juan out of Durango the day before. Mr. Katschthaler has been laying off a lot lately.
Ted McDowell got a rare call at conductor on Marshall Pass as well. Mr. McDowell was hired as a brakeman on 08-05-1928 and was No. 24 on the 1-1-1944 list. He was conductor on the clean-up train west of Gunnison in October 1954.
(((Oops! I forgot F.R. Black at No. 32 was fireman only.)))



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/17/2010 08:43PM by CharlieMcCandless.