Your description of your photo is spot on! You are so right about "Who among us wouldn't like to climnb into the left hand seat box behind the firman..." That right there is a great intro line. I admit it, when I read that, I could picture myself doing that same thing. If anyone is a steam fan, they too, can imagine it. Thank you for getting my imagination jump started at 6am in the morning. Now I want to spend my day off, taking more shots of trains. Even though every pic I submit gets rejected by Railpictures.net. Thats ok, I can enjoy better shots than mine. Thanks again!!
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Having been brought up on steam reading the remarks got my adrenalin flowing, however, I think I would rather sit in the righthand seat with my hands on the controls. Firemen had to work too hard for my money now the engineer, on the other hand, gets the fun of blowing the whistle and letting her roll.
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Work?, trust me the engineer works more than you realize. Even on a modern locomotive. I see it almost everyday working, sitting in that left hand seat of the cab of a major railroad. I have been a conductor for 5 years now and sometimes I feel that I am ready for the engineer training, and then I talk myself out of it.
But Mr. Flanary and I both agree that sitting behind the fireman is the best job. For the most part you are just watching the crew make the old girl live and breath.
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I agree with you on all of this, however, I said what I said with a tongue in cheek attitude. I meant only that I would have prefered being the engineer instead of the fireman. My Father was a brakeman, fireman, and engineer on steam engined freight trains. He told me and took me with him on several of his trips when I was just a young man and I saw how each one did his job. Of the three positions I would prefer the righthand seat. Now that is my preference and not necessarily that of others. Hey! What the heck, it is all a dream now anyway isn't it? ~ Dave.
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She seems to have some extra piping around the feedwater heater that's not in the specifications. I wonder what that was all about?
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I wish they preserved 3 of them. One in Spencer kept in running condition with NS. one at Washington DC. One at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.
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