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Re: Roy Gabriel, another loss to railfan community
Author: Bob Burket
Date: 12-06-2007 - 16:21

Although I can't be certain, this has to be the fellow I met on a Union Pacific railfan trip in Wyoming in 1968: "John Roy Gabriel"? - a glamorously handsome young fellow with a very persuasive personality. He got me to get a Rail Travel Card, and convinced me to exchange my Pullman UP tickets to Los Angeles for a trip on the California Zephyr to SLC and thence to LA via UP Train #5. I knew him for only those three days: I later tried to locate him from phone books and what he had told me of his home, but to no avail. I never saw him after that.

Considering the influence he had on me in a mere three days, I am not surprised that he has made his presence felt around the country. His family have my most heartfelt sharing of sorrow, for whatever right I might have, and I know that they made as big a contribution to Roy as he to them. My experience is one of shock and sorrow - and wonder: what magnificent things can lay in store in the future of a young man with vision.

Bob Burket
Santa Monica, California

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  Roy Gabriel, another loss to railfan community Carol L. Voss 10-03-2007 - 10:21
  Re: Roy Gabriel, another loss to railfan community Ken Ruben 10-04-2007 - 07:45
  Re: Roy Gabriel, another loss to railfan community Ruth Gabriel 10-06-2007 - 18:34
  Re: Roy Gabriel, another loss to railfan community Ruth Gabriel 10-06-2007 - 18:36
  Re: Roy Gabriel, another loss to railfan community Key Route Ken 10-06-2007 - 19:24
  Re: Roy Gabriel, another loss to railfan community Ruth Gabriel 10-06-2007 - 19:49
  Re: Roy Gabriel, another loss to railfan community Key Route Ken 10-06-2007 - 21:49
  Re: Roy Gabriel, another loss to railfan community Ann Anderson 10-08-2007 - 15:03
  Re: Roy Gabriel, another loss to railfan community Bob Burket 12-06-2007 - 16:21
  Re: Roy Gabriel, another loss to railfan community Mary Margaret Durando 10-22-2007 - 11:04
  Re: Roy Gabriel, another loss to railfan community Rick Rice 11-02-2007 - 23:27


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