fromwww.berkeleyside.org
1 week agoRemembering Ray Pimlott, Tilden steam train engineer for over 40 years
Ray contracted polio as a child while living in Oakland, a disease that had no preventative vaccine nor definitive cure at the time. Due in large part to the tenacity of his parents following treatments prescribed by specialists, Ray survived this mostly debilitating and deadly disease. While confined to his bed, Ray waved to the engineers on the trains that passed by outside his window every day.
East Bay (California)