Bob Muffley’s Uncle Lee Jagger (see Jagger Blog) helped Bob toward a railroading job in McCook, Nebraska. Bob only had to find a way to get to McCook, which he did by hopping freight trains and dodging railroad police. Bob Muffley made the brakeman’s list on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad on Nov. 4, 1935. As of January, 1937, Bob Muffley was #69 on the brakeman’s list, and his kinsman Jesse Roy Weidenhamer was #1 for the McCook Division. Bob Muffley sometimes went back to Galesburg to visit his parents and other relatives, and must have courted Frances at that time.
