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A young man's railroad journeys during the Depression
The word had been passed around that the train would stop outside of town, and the railroad dicks would shake it down and kick us all off.
Born in Oklahoma and raised in San Jose, Frank Wicks set out to find his fortune several times over. In addition to his experiences described here, he worked aboard a tramp steamer plying the Far East, and eventually settled in what later became Silicon Valley when he worked at NASA's Ames Laboratories for the next 30 years, building models for testing in the then-state of the art wind tunnels. After retirement he went back to school and earned a BS in Psychology from the University of Colorado, in Boulder. In between courses he and his wife trekked the high Rockies. Nine years after the events recounted in this story he became the proud father of the current editor of The Ecphorizer Online.
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