Here's a railroadman who had more railroad blood in his pinky than most of today's faker's could even dream of having within them in a lifetime. If there was a definition of RAILROADMAN in the dictionary, the photo above would be right next to it.

Yardmaster Billy O'Brien at the old Southampton Street Yard Office. September 1990. 40 lbs. lighter.

Conductor-Flagman C.C. Johnson at Wood River Jct. on a cold December night in 1997.

Conductor Jimmy "Huge" Hughes has everything under control on this busy Sunday afternoon in 1991.

A beautiful rendition of the Hell Gate Bridge.