'The Dark Side Of The Railroad': A Locomotive Engineer's Fraught Legacy With The Rails
Barnie Botone's grandmother cried when he told her he was a locomotive engineer because an ancestor had been forcibly relocated by train. "The irony, it was too much to bear," he says at StoryCorps.
In 1973, Barnie Botone got a job in Albuquerque, N.M., working on the railroad. He was 22 years old.
Now, 67, Botone remembers when he told his grandmother that he'd be working as an engineer for the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway. He had been excited to share the news, but her reaction, he explains in a StoryCorps conversation, was not what
