A remarkable career remembered.

Lavery's friend was working on a curve with very tight clearance between the engines and an adjacent track when he was struck by a yard job making a shoving move. That winter Lavery was furloughed from the track gang, so for a time he got a job doing non-railroad work. Discussions about railroad safety led me to David Lavery, whom our trainmaster Mike Lacey met through his connections at CSX and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen. [Extracted from the article]