
sdCowboyBen
I moved out of Prescott and Arizona for that matter (married) so now I guess you can call me Ben In San Diego or as my email says beninsand@yahoo.com. I am a retired man that has worked in various forms as a manager, supervisor and owner…retail, wholesale, staffing, construction and…more. I grew up in Arizona and was always intrigued by Flagstaff and the Santa Fe, the White Mountains and specifically McNary with Southwest Forest industries and Snowflake with the big paper mill. The Apache RR was the RW that serviced that area for the lumber mill and papermill. I guess I am lucky because one wood mill in the US is called Bennett Lumber ( my name,) and I am using that name throughout my layout.
I went to school in Scottsdale and I went to Arizona State University on an Architecture scholarship. But I ended up with a BS in Management instead. I worked for 14 years with Skaggs Drugs (Sav-on, Osco) the went into the wholesale business. Then I worked for an industrial constructor, EBASCO, building power plants. I was project Office Manager on all the sites I was assigned to.
I have finally gotten my settlement from my past employer regarding a bad back and shoulder that were injured when I lifted a box of magazines too high. OUCH! But when SSA got done with looking at the paperwork they doubled my award! That left me with $6000 worth of orders from MR, Kalmbach and Micro-Mark.
My mom and dad passed away in 2015 which was a big blow to me. They were both in their 90’s but still very unexpected. So what did I do to get my mind off of bad things? I worked on my MR stuff. I