The Reverend Jimmy Kearse spent 18 years as a waiter with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
(Lee Wexler)
Three porters next to their Chicago Burlington & Quincy train in Illinois in 1945. (Keith Harman, Trains Magazine Collection)
Samuel Turner worked as everything from dish washer to cook, waiter to attendant, during his 40 years with the railroads. (Lee Wexler)
Virgil Orite Smock was part of a Pullman family, with an older and younger brother also working for the company, as had his father and grandfather. (Lee Wexler)
Lawrence “Happy” Davis went to work for the Pullman Company in 1925, just as the drive for a union was beginning, and stayed until the company ceased operations in 1969. (Lee Wexler)
Porter Parish Jones shines the shoes of sleeping soldiers in 1942. The “D” he marked on the sole helped him remember which berth to return that pair to. (Corbis)
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