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Edward Eckes was a mechanic at the Northern Pacific Railroad Company's Auburn (Wash.) roundhouse and husband of Ruth Trueblood Eckes, railroad historian and author.

Ruth Trueblood Eckes grew up in Tacoma (Wash.). Her father, Leo O. Trueblood, was working as a brakeman on the Northern Pacific Railway when she graduated from high school in 1943. The Northern Pacific hired her in January 1944. Her first job was at Kanaskat (Wash.) in the Cascade foothills. After working many other jobs for the Northern Pacific, she met and married her husband, Edward Eckes, a machinist in the Auburn (Wash.) roundhouse. She is the author of "Rail Tales", "Blow the Whistle Softly", "Call of the Rails", "Down the Tracks", "Sparks, Smoke and Cinders", and "A Lester Scrapbook".