John West Wrote:
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> I remember when SP transferred me from Houston to
> Salinas, I made a point of driving through
> Sanderson to see if it was as bad as everyone said
> it was. Yup. You really needed to love the
> middle of nowhere to like Sanderson. Seems to me
> the closest hospital was in Lubbock, or some such.
> Seem to me that was an issue with a trainmaster
> with a pregnant wife. Wasn't Carrizzo another of
> those places that was kinda low on the totem pole.
> Of course, SP had a lot of those kinda places. A
> friend (well, usually the friend's wife) loves to
> tell tales about their "life" at Gila Bend. Then
> you had the places on the Coast where folks were
> happy to retire in place.
>
> Them were the good olde days.
>
> JBWX

Tucumcari, NM and Alturas, CA. A couple of career ending locations on the SP for a green horn manager that screwed up