[CBQ] First Black Dining Car Steward to be honored

["Stephen J. Levine" <sjl_prodigynet@yahoo.com>]

I noticed this item on the NARP Hotline:

American railroading's first black dining car steward will be honored by Amtrak 
in Philadelphia's Union Station as part of National Train Day festivities.  The 
95 year old Willie Varnado, Sr.?who will travel to Philadelphia from his 
current residence in Florence, Mississippi?said of the recognition to local 
radio station WLBT, "I think it's wonderful, I think it's beautiful, but I 
think it's a little bit late." 

I wonder when Mr. Varnado became a dining car steward.  The reason is that I 
remember a black dining car steward on the Denver Zephyr when I rode it in the 
mid 1960's.  Did Mr. Varnado predate the man I remember?

sjl



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