Malcom Gaddis
An interview with Malcom Gaddis, who worked for Southern Pacific in Sacramento, California from 1956-1978. Gaddis worked in the Sacramento Shops as an Electrical Engineer, and achieved the engineering design and conversion of Southern Pacific steam powered rotary snowplows to diesel electric power. He was also involved in several conversions and upgrades of Southern Pacific diesel locomotives.
Date of Interview
Interviewer
1996-06-11
John Howard
Project
Program/Repository
Southern Pacific Railroad Sacramento Shops Oral History Project
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One of the things I tried to do being both an electrician and an electrical engineer is to make drawings that an electrician can understand without having to scratch his head and try to figure out, “Well is that a contact or is that a capacitor or is that a resistor?”