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My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.

My dad was a telegraph operator for the Cotton Belt Railroad. He worked seven nights a week from 4 until midnight, no vacation.

I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad.

I had a great job with the railroad, a good salary.

I bought a railroad during this period of time.

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

My father worked all the time.

In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job.

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.