Re: Coast Starlight Question
Author: Carol L. Voss
Date: 10-01-2010 - 08:47
MP 44.7 Wrote:
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> > C.
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> Drew, and Carol... Thanks for the info. I was
> just curious. I am riding the Starlight for the
> first time in about 12-13 years.. I was just
> curious if anything has changed much since then.
> I can't remember the engineers name, but when I
> was at the Santa Clara at the train station on
> friday evenings, there was an engineer that always
> gave the railfans at the meetings a couple
> friendly toots on the horn. Was that Tommy the
> Rocket, or am I thinking of someone else??
>
> Robert
Tommy stopped running the Starlate in 2000. I doubt that he was the one who gave the friendly toots. He wasn't anti-railfan but he wasn't that sort of guy.
C.
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> Robert