‘More Railroad Memories’
Reading Ernie Butler’s history of the PRR brought back memories of my short two-year span with the PRR. I was a clerk in the Round House from 1956 to 1958. I was responsible for calling all the train crews to work on the helpers. Also had to walk up to the Crescent or American Hotel and wakeup the swing brakeman whenever a freight was moving north. You never knew who this fellow was going to be and it sometimes was a chore getting him up.