Childhood dreamer ; LEE GIBSON, 99 “As a child I used to live beside the track in Louisiana,” says Gibson, who worked for
Union Pacific for 38 years. “I’d wait for a train to go by, and signal the engineer to pull the whistle.” Gibson’s first train ride was in
1919, when his family moved from Louisiana to Texas. The Pullman opportunity came when he was a young married man in L.A. in the
1930s. “I’d receive and discharge passengers, take care of their baggage, and clean the coaches,” he says. “I never bothered keeping
track of the hours.” As a porter, Gibson recalls, “we were treated decently. We were a special part of the people’s travel experience.” ;
