Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Eckes, Ruth
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Description area
Dates of existence
1927-2019
History
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".
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Control area
Authority record identifier
D0009
Institution identifier
WaBuPNRA
Rules and/or conventions used
Describing Archives - A Content Standard (DACS) 2nd Edition 2013
Status
Revised
Level of detail
Partial
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Language(s)
English
Script(s)
Latin
Sources
Donor files at Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive.