Locomotive Engineer KC Hill has been railroading since 1957... and was involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis! Thanks Mike!

 

during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 Hill was in the U.S. Army (1962-1964), serving as a locomotive engineer at Fort Lewis Army Base in Washington state.

 “Our railroad switched out two trains of missiles because there was an Army firing range [near the track in Yakima],” Hill recalled. 

“When President Kennedy said we needed missiles in Florida, my crew switched out those trains at Fort Lewis and sent them to Florida. I was on duty for 20 hours and had top-secret clearance … The trains were given high priority and had to go through 10 different railroads.”

https://www.railwayage.com/freight/class-i/a-lifetime-of-railroading-bnsf-locomotive-engineer-has-67-years-of-service-so-far/