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Alaska Railroad’s first black conductor celebrates unprecedented 50 years with company

Harry Ross started moving trains when he was 21.

Fifty years later, he’s still transporting passengers and freight by rail across the state.

https://www.ktoo.org...-years-company/

 

Ross has appeared on the Discovery Channel's TV show "Railroad Alaska."

 

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He was the conductor on the Aurora Express that I took from Anchorage to Fairbanks and back a couple of years back over Thanksgiving weekend. Delightful guy!