The San Antonio Zoo train has been chugging around Brackenridge Park since 1956 and has become a treasure to the city. But one of the conductors behind the city gem is also a treasure.
Rhetta Minnis has been driving the train for years and recently walked KSAT12 through her prep routine for the CW2 Express.
“The train is getting ready to leave the station please stand clear of the train,” she announces over her loud speaker from the conductor cab.“Gotta move the button to get the shutter down,” she explains. The conductors are the ones that put the rail road crossing arms down in Brackenridge Park to alert park pedestrians and drivers the San Antonio Zoo Train is coming.Always with her red bow in place and wearing overalls, Rhetta has been doing this for 15 years.
This wasn’t her first job. She started as a conductor after she retired from her state job of 30 years.So when she was looking for her retirement job, she knew she wanted to do something completely different.A friend recommended she work at the zoo, and there was an opening for train conductors.“The minute I stepped foot inside that roundhouse, I felt right at home,” Rhetta said. “I knew I had found my niche. And it’s been great ever since. Just unbelievable.
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