A Tucson man is celebrating his 90th birthday with a journey that rolls through both time and memory.
“I walk just about every day,” David Butler explains, “I’ve never been a worrier, never mentally, got overwhelmed.”
Butler’s connection to the railroad runs deep. His father worked for Southern Pacific, and as a young kid, he often traveled solo by train to visit family in Los Fresnos, Texas. “My folks would put me on the train. I was 12 or 13 years old. I’d ride the train by myself all the way down there,” Butler says.
Butler has lived in Tucson since 1940. To celebrate his 90th, Butler’s four daughters planned a trip to retrace those tracks…