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Gale Wetherell

Gale Wetherell was born in 1933 and moved with his family to Talkeetna, Alaska in 1935. They supported themselves by mining, running a freighting business, operating the roadhouse in Talkeetna, and trapping in the winter. Gale served in the US Army for two years at Fort Richardson in Anchorage, and then got a job as a brakeman with the Alaska Railroad. He went on to become a railroad conductor and worked for the Alaska Railroad for forty years.

Gale Wetherell appears in the following new Jukebox projects:

Railroads of Alaska

Interview Title	Abstract	Archive #: Oral History	Project	Date of Interview
Gale Wetherell	Gale Wetherell was interviewed on May 19, 2003 by William Schneider in Anchorage, Alaska. In this interview, Gale talks about being around the railroad as a kid in Talkeetna, and working for the Alaska Railroad as a brakeman and a conductor. He also talks about growing up in Talkeetna, stories about miners out on the creeks, life on a trapline, working for the Alaska Railroad, passenger and freight trains, whistle stops, supplying mining camps, animals and weather effecting train activity, learning the mechanics of rail cars, and job duties of a conductor.	2003-11-01	Railroads of Alaska