Fireman and conductors on the Western Maryland must have been puzzled numerous times during the 1940’s and 1950’s wondering just which “Engineer Rhodes” they were working with. Nine brothers with that last name held right hand seats on WM locomotives, sharing among them 188 years of service. Crew dispatchers had to be careful to specify, when they called an engineer to handle a train, whether they wanted Bob, Burnell, Clint, Dale, Dick, Don, Paul, Preston, or Sterling! But there were no identity problems for the crew of the Pennsylvania Limited, especially when conductor Henry A. Taylor made his final run on that train out of Fort Worth, Indiana, in 1950. Practically the whole gang- engineer,fireman, brakeman, and so on- were his sons, six of them. Taylor had a seventh son, as well, but he was busy in town, driving buses!
Must be Mr Rhodes wasn’t always on the road! Henry didn’t seem to spend all his time with his train either.
Interesting trivia,