Alaska Railroad’s first Black conductor celebrates unprecedented 50 years with company

Originally published on Alaska Public Media. Harry Ross started moving trains when he was 21. Fifty years later, he’s still transporting passengers and freight by rail across the state. “I do not believe there has ever been nobody as foolish as I,” Ross said. It wasn’t a job Ross expected to get, and it wasn’t … Continue reading Alaska Railroad’s first Black conductor celebrates unprecedented 50 years with company