Diné Artist Leo Platero Remembers his Railroad Worker Father

02.23.2022. The above image is a photograph of an unidentified Native American railroad worker at the Winslow, Arizona Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad yard. Photograph by Jack Delano (1914 – 1997). Courtesy of the Library of Congress. What does Diné artist Leo Platero remember about his railroad worker father? In the late 1950s Leo’s father, silversmith Sam Platero, worked …