Railroaders' Nostalgia > Rehashing some old SP names

These fellas were kind of my babysitters on the coast between L.A. and SLO:
Joe Taylor
Eddie Bremer
Jimmy Johns
Roy Ables
Roy McFadden
? Kristopherson
? Diehl
Al Thomas
That's all that this old man can conjur up right now. I wonder ving people can remember any of these great guys?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/15/18 07:04 by whistlepig.

whistlepig Wrote:
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> These fellas were kind of my babysitters on the
> coast between L.A. and SLO:
> Joe Taylor
> Eddie Bremer
> Jimmy Johns
> Roy Ables
> Roy McFadden
> ? Kristopherson
> ? Diehl
> Al Thomas
> That's all that this old man can conjur up right
> now. I wonder ving people can remember any of
> these great guys?



I take it that these were AMTK folks?

NO. They were S.P. back around 1963/4. They used to tolerate me when I would ride with my grandfather on 99/98,75/76 and 90/91.

The only one of those names I recognize is R.C. Christofferson who was a LA division man with a 11-23-1939 date. Of course I never actually
worked with him but the others I wonder if they were Coast Division men?

Charlie

Diel was Iversens fireman. I met him one night when grampa put me up front on 75. The rest were Coast division. But like I said most who knew them are probably gone.

whistlepig Wrote:
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> These fellas were kind of my babysitters on the
> coast between L.A. and SLO:
> Joe Taylor
> Eddie Bremer
> Jimmy Johns
> Roy Ables
> Roy McFadden
> ? Kristopherson
> ? Diehl
> Al Thomas
> That's all that this old man can conjur up right
> now. I wonder ving people can remember any of
> these great guys?


How about the last names of these hogheads: Weaver, Bryant, Swanson, Bradshaw, McCarron and Block.

Ring any bells?



Allen

bradleymckay Wrote:
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> whistlepig Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > These fellas were kind of my babysitters on the
> > coast between L.A. and SLO:
> > Joe Taylor
> > Eddie Bremer
> > Jimmy Johns
> > Roy Ables
> > Roy McFadden
> > ? Kristopherson
> > ? Diehl
> > Al Thomas
> > That's all that this old man can conjur up
> right
> > now. I wonder ving people can remember any of
> > these great guys?
>
>
> How about the last names of these hogheads:
> Weaver, Bryant, Swanson, Bradshaw, McCarron and
> Block.
>
> Ring any bells?
>
>
>
> Allen

Yep.

I worked with Ables when he worked freight out of San Luis Obispo.

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In trying to remember most of these fellas, I now think they were Coast division.

That would be John Weaver, Connie Bryant or Perrier Bryant, Bob Swanson, Roe Bradshaw, George McCarron and Ernie Block.

Roy Ables was a Coast Conductor. He lived in Santa Barb but was a Coast man. I pulled him many a time. The best was on a work train at the start of "Hate Week". We had a message to leave the train at Surf and go cab hop into LA. (the strike started at midnight.) Roy had it down where we could make either Santa Barb or SLO before we died. We made it to SLO.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/22/18 17:31 by spnudge.

whistlepig --
I asked a retired SP Coast Division steam-era fireman if he recognized any of those names, and he did not, and he still has the names of every single hoghead he ever fired for. So I think all of those men whose names you gave either worked for the SP after 1959 -- after the steam era ended -- or were LA Division men.

What years did you work for the SP when those men "babysat" you? TIA!

I never worked for SP. These men all were older. Not a young man among them. McFadden was the youngest and he was probably in his 40s or 50s.

whistlepig Wrote:
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> I never worked for SP. These men all were older.
> Not a young man among them. McFadden was the
> youngest and he was probably in his 40s or 50s.

Thank you. You did give me -- and probably others -- the impression you worked for the SP. Did any of the men you named work for the SP during the steam era = the 1950s? When did those men "babysit" you? Thanks!

When I said babysit I meant when I would ride with my grandfather, a 60+ year SP conductor. All of these men would have probably hired out prior to WW2.