Just Regular People
Sometimes we only read or learn about people who are famous or have done
something extraordinary. The people that I have included in this site, may
have lived as regular people but were remembered and admired by my
ancestors. They may have been conductors, engineers, brakemen, switchmen,
supervisors, friends and acquaintances but they earned the respect of my
ancestors to be remembered as someone who made a difference in their life.
Listed below are some of the railroad people acquainted with my ancestors.

Ira Lucas, Yardmaster - Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe
W. D. Van Bergen, Conductor - Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe
Louis Yengst, Engineer - Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe
Clay Hayman, Engineer - Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe
Amos Beeler, Engineer - Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe
Magnus Peterson, Conductor - Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe
Howard R. Brady, Conductor - Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe
George M. Stevens, Conductor - Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe
C. C. Parker, Conductor - Chicago Rock Island & Pacific
A. P. Pierce, Conductor - Chicago Rock Island & Pacific
Samuel F. Crossett, Operator - Chicago Rock Island & Pacific
Frank G. Cross, Switchman - Chicago Rock Island & Pacific
Constant Brown, Agent - Chicago Rock Island & Pacific
William F Bennett, Switchman - Chicago Burlington & Quincy
L. O. Gould, Operator - Chicago Rock Island/Burlington Junction
Charles E. Michaels, Operator - Chicago Rock Island/Burlington Junction
Levant F. Gardner, Operator - Chicago Rock Island & Pacific
John Z. Roraback, Halstead, Harvey County, Kansas 1882
P. K. Dillenbeck, Halstead, Harvey County, Kansas 1882
Hugh A. Bankead, Conductor - Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe 1893
George A. Reynolds, Operator - Chicago Burlington & Quincy 1878
My Present Past
A genealogical experience
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Background:
Denver Northwest & Pacific #113 chugs up
Gore Canyon on the Moffat Road in 1911
Picture taken by G D Engel  
Railroads
Background:
Denver Northwest & Pacific #113 chugs up
Gore Canyon on the Moffat Road in 1911
Picture taken by G D Engel  
Robert E Jacobs was hired by the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad on June 08, 1945 as a relief
operator/leverman at Liberty, Missouri. He worked at various locations in Missouri during his tenure with
the Burlington railroad including, Birmingham, Block 222, Brookfield, Browning, Callao, Cameron Junction,
Cameron, Carrollton, Hamilton, Hunnewell, Kearney, Liberty, Macon, Monroe City and Shelbina, Missouri.

Gene left the railroad in 1956 to work at the Trans World Airlines overhaul base in Kansas City, Missouri,
where he remained until his retirement in 1993.
Sometimes being a ticket agent has a little bit more
excitement than just another day at the depot.
Left:
1945 Liberty, Missouri C B & Q Line-Up

Below:
1945 Burlington Lines
Certificate Of Examination Robert E Jacobs
1920 Hamilton Watches  
The Standard for Railroad Time