My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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 bought a railroad during this period of time.
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
I had a great job with the railroad, a good salary.
My dad was a cross-country truck driver.
My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers in 1943. Between 100,000 and 200,000 died.
My father and brothers were coal miners.
My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.
For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.