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I was born and raised in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas to parents from Centralia, Illinois and Hammond, Indiana. One summer as a college guy I worked at the Reynolds Reduction Plant in Malvern. I shoveled coke out of the bottom of hopper cars and once helped a MoPac locomotive get a hopper back on the track. Aside from that I made squashd pennies on UP in Troutdale Oregon, rode Amtrak to Montreal from Sanford, FL, and the Seaboard Coastline train to Ft. Myers eating Thanksgiving dinner the whole way. Oh, and I almost forgot. I rode the last MoPac passenger train from Hot Springs to Little Rock when I was 5 years old in 1964. That is my total rail experience! Childhood trips to the busy rail town of Centralia, in summer stoked my interest in railroading. I can still hear the sounds in the night. I grew up and got a degree in Physics and Computer Science, helped launch a few space shuttles and build a few F15's but always wished I'd gone to my first interest: railroading. Its not too late and I'm in the market for work. Heavy industry is my background. I understand rail customers and computers. I think railroad employees are on the same level of importance as our people serving in the military and should be recognized more often for the important contribution to actually delivering us the material life we enjoy. I don't know what we'd be like without rail. An ugly mess I suppose. I'm saved by the blood of Christ.
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