My Dad By Scott Sjostrand Dale K. Sjsotrand, the Empire Expander, worked for the BNSF, one of the very best. A farmer/laborer, ex-Navy, he loved mom’s homemade gravy. My role model and hero, eat your Cheerios! Calloused hands of leather, hairy chest with whiskers, five o’clock shadow. Always over dressed for the cold and snow. A charitable heart, too bad he received a bullet target-center. You’re my ultimate mentor!