Capt Carrales of the Garden Railways forum here. Being a Microferroquinologist(Large Scale) and denizen of Classic Television, I came across a contoversy! On the Classic Television show Leave it to Beaver, it has been widely debated as to what Ward Cleaver, the father of the show, did for a living.
I finally have an answer that seems made for those if us that enjoy Trains!!!
Last Christmas I was given some Railroad videos, one of them was titled… 225,000-Mile Proving Ground and was Narrated by Hugh Beaumont, the same actor who played Ward Cleaver!
The Beaver’s father then…must work for the American Association of Railroads!
So, Ward was the public relations man for the AAR? I hope that Eddie Haskell didn’t try to derail any of those newfangled diesels with Jume Clever’s pearls!
In the show he was an accountant. He worked for the character played by Richard Deacon who you may recall was on the *** Van *** show. BTW, did you see the episode of Leave It to Beaver where Beaver and Wally rode behind an SP daylight GS-4? They were riding w/o tickets and the conductor allowed them to stay on the train.
Did you see the episode where Beaver had “outgrown” his Lionel trains and was going to give them away. After retrieving them from storage, Beaver started running them and decided that he would like to keep them. While Beaver went to get more trains from Whitey’s house, the pretty sister of the boy Ward had promised the trains to showed up to collect. Wally was overwhelmed and gave her the trains.
Are you sure he was an accountant? I have several friends who passionately maintain that we sold insurance. Richard Deacon may have been his coworker, Fred.
The episode you mention is one of my favorites. I have make this same post in the Classic Trains forum and it was pointed out that the conductor was wearing a Wabash uniform?! Very Curious…eh?