Well Wes I surely think you have the definitive spelling of Shorty's last name. I used to love to sit in the office and listen to Shorty's railroading stories. Wish I would have taken notes or recorded them but never did. He was indeed a great person and fun to be around. on occasions he would let me sit at the board and run the CTC machine which controlled from Fulda to Truckee. What a treat that was. I think that was pretty unique on the SP having an operator run 37 miles of railroad especially in the winter during snow fighting operations. Even into the 70's the Superintendent and other officials would be at Norden during storms to direct operations. I think that some time in the late 70's the officials moved to Truckee.
Dick Dorn