San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway Personnel

"REPORT" Issue 110, Feb.-March 1975, Page 7, col 2
AROUND THE TURNTABLE
On January 18th (1975), S.P. Lines President B.F. Biaggini and R.D. Spence, V.P. Operations toured spectacular Carrizo Gorge in their private cars. Called the "Presidential Special", the special train was enroute from Portland to St. Louis on a tour of the vast S.P. system. The party arrived in San Diego via the Santa Fe at 10:30 p.m. on the 17th. The officials slept on board overnite, and the next morning, S.P. engines 3346 and one of the new 3100-class engines, and a chair car for the train crew, picked up the two business cars and departed for El Centro as an extra train "with right over all trains". J.F. "Jimmie" Rogers, a 30 year veteran of SD&AE train service, was the "brains" on that regal trip. The new engine has one of the new "standardized" control panels, modeled after the SD-45 panel.

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