Since it was out of sharvest eason, I knew something was up. I'll post the best of that in the next few days (I'm in the middle of a house move right now ! - this is a fun diversion, compared to that).īack in 1978, while on the Extra board for clerks on the old Northern Division out of Ft Worth, I got an assignment for a 3 week gig in Stephenville as relief agent. * - I found some other information by searching for various combinations of 'Navajo' ( or 'navaho', surprisingly enough), and either 'steel gang' (not much), or 'track gang', or 'rail gang'. Note especially the 1971 comments by Santa Fe President John Reed about minority employment by railroads on pg. The portion relevant here is the excerpt from the bottom of page 322 and page 323.

(Oddly enough, the Google page for this looks like it is buried in a page for a children's book about a Navajo boy, entitled ' Owl in the Cedar Tree'.) Bryant, Jr., published 1974 by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, (trading as Bison Books), and/ or Trans-Anglo Books, and/ or Macmillan, New York, ISBN 0-0832-6066-0. One of the links was to a 'Google Books' excerpt from the ' History of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway' by Keith L. I used Google's 'Advanced Search' for 'Navajo' and 'track gang'*.

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