Railroaders' Nostalgia > 1964 SP Los Angeles Division engineer, firemen and hostler roster

The next installment of Charlie Wherry's rosters is now on Wx4. This was a company roster put out by the L. A. Division master mechanic.

Charlie is on roster page 5, with fireman seniority #165.

http://wx4.org/sp_employees/pages/rosters/sp_rosters.html

Ed Gibson

A few noteworthy names that railfans may recognize are Walter Beverly Moloney, early steam photographer whose images have graced
several publications such as Signor's "Beaumont Hill" and "Three Barrels Of Steam"; Jack Fesco--early member of Los Angeles Live Steamers; Jim "Cowboy Crawford--renowned
for wearing pearl handled revolvers in his early days around Indio; Delbert "Deb" Crowley--locally famous for his penchant for speed---(just ask Gyralite) and
Vincent "Beanie" Sitker--(misspelled Sitkar on this roster)--renowned for his Kromer caps and to whom Doyle McCormack deferred, allowing Beanie to
run his 4449 out of LA to Bassett in 1975---nice touch.

There are many, many other characters but in reality all of them brought their own personality to the job and when
I look over this roster it's those personalities that I recall first and foremost. Thanks Ed for creating such a neat platform for us.

Charlie

Charlie,

That pistol packing guy didn't happen to be a switchmen in LA ? There was a trainman that had never been up the Coast but caught a run during Hate Week. Going west, he lines the train into Surf and when they got down to the west end, he let loose both pistols. He forgot to tell the hog head and it scared the hell out of him.

If the hogger had a weapon, Im sure he would have been tempted to use it.. Most of us all packed heat back then. SLO was a good county to get a CWP If you got sent to the City and worked the night Quint St, you didn't want to be alone with the only help 40 cars away.