Conductor Brad’s last ride

[TinCan782]

"Train enthusiasts, skiers, travelers, volunteers — they gathered, some unknowingly but most fully aware, for a retirement celebration of Brad Swartzwelter, the conductor of Amtrak’s Winter Park Express."
https://www.rmpbs.org/blogs/rocky-mountain-pbs/brad-swartzwelter-winter-park-express-retirement/

 

[Willbridge]

2014 - Brad borrowed a passenger's guitar and entertained passengers waiting for Train 5.


My favorite Brad story is that when he was working the Cascades he talked two women out of having a fight as the train approached the Canadian border. We had visions of trying to figure out which jurisdiction would apply. One of the women was his cafe attendant, and if he had to leave her in custody in Canada there would have been no food service on the southbound trip.