Bob Saar
for The Hawk Eye
The Mark Twain Zephyr was one of the premier trains on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad when it was put into service on Oct. 25, 1935. Its lustrous stainless-steel design made it clear the shovel-nose locomotive was new and modern.
Named after author Mark Twain, the train ran between Burlington and St. Louis through Hannibal, Missouri, Twain s hometown.
Built by the Budd Co., locomotive No. 9903 was named Injun Joe, the bad guy in Twain s seminal novel, Tom Sawyer. Likewise, the three cars were named after Twain characters: Becky Thatcher, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. The Mark Twain was christened in Hannibal by Twain s granddaughter and final descendant Nina Clemens Gabilowitsch.
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About a hundred people from the LGBTQ and labor communities gathered in San Francisco s Castro district to kick off Pride weekend June 25 by honoring straight ally Allan Baird a lifelong neighborhood resident who was instrumental to the cause of queer equality in unions.
In 1973, Baird took charge of a union strike against Bay Area distributors, including the Coors Brewing Company. Baird reached out to his neighbor, gay future Supervisor Harvey Milk, to build a coalition. Coors also had a 178-question employment application form, as Nancy Wohlforth explained in 2017 on the International Brotherhood of Teamsters website. One question demanded: Are you a homosexual? If you answered yes, that terminated your application, she stated. Another demanded Are you pro-union? If you answered yes, that terminated you, too.
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