Harry Anson

Harry Anson
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Harry Anson is a train engineer. In 1981 he was working for D&O Railroad and was on Steve Cziller's crew that D & O sent to help.^SX6 He did quite well in the poker games, at least early in the trip.^SX14

Harry was the one that knew about the Lordston Northern and gave Cziller some of Bill Lee's history.^SX6 He wasn't surprised to hear Diane Lee's voice and explained, "It doesn't seem like you'd ever expect a cute little tyke like her to even set foot in a railroad yard, but she runs their Alco, and I've even seen her running their steamer."^SX14

Harry retired early^FtS7 from working with the D&O Railroad before 1999 and worked part-time in the summers for C&SL Railroad. Harry didn't want to work more than 40 hours a week. Dave Ames described him as "a grumpy old fart at the best of times, but he knows his stuff."^SQ25 Danny Evachevski wasn't thrilled to work with him because, "About all Anson could talk about was fishing and bitch about his wife."^SQ28

Harry spent his winters in Florida.^SQ28

With Steve Rumsey added to the roster, Bud Ellsberg was less tolerant of Harry and his difficulties.^FtS26 It was issues related to Harry that Bud used to test whether Josh Archer was ready to run the railroad.^FtS36