William Brown
An interview with William O. Brown, who worked for Southern Pacific in Sacramento, California from 1937-1967. Brown started in the Sacramento Shops as a Draftsman and rose to the position of Assistant Superintendent, Motive Power and later became Superintendent of the Mechanical Department.
Date of Interview
Interviewer
1996-11-21
Lenonard Kennedy
Project
Program/Repository
Southern Pacific Railroad Sacramento Shops Oral History Project
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My background was railroading. My father was a railroad man all his life. Just kinda got in the blood, I guess.