Re: Other Legendary Hoggers
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 01-30-2012 - 18:58
SLOCONDR Wrote:
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> Gasser Wrote:
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> > Anyone remember Black Cloud? Worked the
> commutes
> > and some locals around SJ. Earned the nickname
> as
> > I recall.
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> Black Cloud (Bullet) was a character to say the
> least. I worked with him out of San Luis Obispo
> quite a bit after he left SJ and came down here.
> Hoghead? Maybe. Nice guy? YOU BET! That guy could
> laugh non-stop!!
>
> V
>
> SLOCONDR
Ah, the memories. . . He was my fireman on my very first road trip as an engineer, on a beet train from West Oakland to Watsonville. Extra 9255 East from West Oakland to Santa Clara, then cleared as First 930 from San Jose to Watsonville.