This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vm.2ADE/1340.1 Message Board Post: somebody is leading you wrong, all railroad employs have social sec. nos. just like everyone else.. try the soc.sec.death index.. i had over 38 yrs. on the c&ei r.r---mopac and union pacific. as a conductor.. retired 1995. we do not draw soc.sec. but draw railroad retirement..