Colton Man Gave to Others

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COLTON - Fidel Diaz long wanted to be a railroad man like his father, so when he came home after World War II, he went to work for the railway in San Bernardino.

During his many years on the job he earned a reputation as being a good locomotive painter, adding coats of brightly colored paint to many of the San Bernardino area's trains, and later a hardworking foreman.

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Colton Man Gave to Others

"He was this creative man who never painted with a roller, always a brush, and when he taught me to paint, if I made one drip, he would make me fix it," his daughter Stella Diaz of Colton recalled.

The man who left his mark on many San Bernardino trains

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