Steam & Excursion > Work done on 4014

Sorry if this is old news to some of you. I just seen some recent pics of work being done.
The cab has been removed,  all the super heater units have been removed, grates and ash pan has been removed.

And another employee got fed up and quit last week.

Which guy quit?

Joe

joeygooganelli Wrote:
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> Which guy quit?
>
> Joe

One of the "machinists" who was actually a T&E employee. Exercised his seniority and marked up in the road pool.

Realist Wrote:
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> And another employee got fed up and quit last
> week.

We'll can't blame him, my understanding Ed is hard to work for.

Posted from Android

badtanker1987 Wrote:
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> Realist Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > And another employee got fed up and quit last
> > week.
>
> We'll can't blame him, my understanding Ed is hard
> to work for.

With well more than 200% employee turnover since January 2011, I believe the term "hard to work for" is a major understatement!

badtanker1987 Wrote:
> We'll can't blame him, my understanding Ed is hard
> to work for.
I'll be sorry I replied, here. But I worked with and for Ed, and he is fine - accurate, driven, responsible, and sociable. He moved 4014, finished 844, and will steam 4014 next. One must be pretty strong to do that.

Spikes Wrote:
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> badtanker1987 Wrote:
> > We'll can't blame him, my understanding Ed is
> hard
> > to work for.
> I'll be sorry I replied, here. But I worked with
> and for Ed, and he is fine - accurate, driven,
> responsible, and sociable. He moved 4014, finished
> 844, and will steam 4014 next. One must be pretty
> strong to do that.

You must be joking!  You may have been a volunteer for/with the current manager, but you sure didn't work for, and receive pay from, him.

HotWater Wrote:
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> Spikes Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > badtanker1987 Wrote:
> > > We'll can't blame him, my understanding Ed is
> > hard
> > > to work for.
> > I'll be sorry I replied, here. But I worked
> with
> > and for Ed, and he is fine - accurate, driven,
> > responsible, and sociable. He moved 4014,
> finished
> > 844, and will steam 4014 next. One must be
> pretty
> > strong to do that.
>
> You must be joking!  You may have been a
> volunteer for/with the current manager, but you
> sure didn't work for, and receive pay from, him.

+1.....!!!

I don't have the words..........!!!!???

It will be interesting to see how they go about removing the front engine.
If "l'm a perfectionist" does a proper tear-down and renewal of the common 'renewables', like flex-joint packing, etc...
Seems me to have been a routine back-shop operation, back in the day...

​W.

Spikes, he was good to you because you keep putting those
insufferably fawning, slobbering posts here.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/28/16 17:32 by Realist.

Spikes Wrote:
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> I'll be sorry I replied, here. But I worked with
> and for Ed, and he is fine - accurate, driven,
> responsible, and sociable. He moved 4014, finished
> 844, and will steam 4014 next. One must be pretty
> strong to do that.

I've seen Ed's sociable side in UP Steam's better days, before the 844 was sidelined for almost 3 years. So there's no need to be sorry, others have seen it.

But then, this manager I used to work for also had a sociable side, and he used it to appease people when necessary. He also had a vengeful side (and a paranoid side, having his kiss-ass spy employees listen in on office conversations). Some people know how to be "nice" by design - I try to avoid people like that. 

I had several minutes of free time when riding a train yesterday, so I re-read the copy of the complaint filed by Carolin Miller against Ed Dickens that was still on my USB drive. Driven? Maybe, but for the wrong reasons. Responsible? Absolutely not. I don't understand why he hasn't chilled out after dodging a bullet with the repair of the 844 recently. Hero worship won't make a difference on the state of 4014 - that's my advice.

Hey when you accomplish the repairs that you create the need for, what's not to be happy about?

Spikes Wrote:
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> I'll be sorry I replied, here. But I worked with
> and for Ed, and he is fine - accurate, driven,
> responsible, and sociable. He moved 4014, finished
> 844, and will steam 4014 next. One must be pretty
> strong to do that.

ROFLMAO

No, really, thank you spikes. I have been having a very bad day and really need a laugh. Thank you.

It's a bit of a stretch, but the saga of UP steam and 90's era Guns N' Roses have some similarities. Both were great for a good while, then bad blood and politics began to divide them. GNR's original guitarists and Steve Lee departed and things began to slip immediately. One by one, the old timers that made them great left amid a flurry of lawsuits. A slew of replacements came and went. Years of no results piled up, with the front men, Axl Rose and Ed Dickens, stringing loyal fans along by insisting really important behind-the-scenes things us mere mortals wouldn't understand were happening. Both eventually devolved into bad jokes. Finally, under heavy pressure from handlers, "GNR"(Down to just the singer and a bunch of nonames) crapped out a forgettable album and Dickens ran 844 on one short excursion. Now we're at the part where maybe ED could take a page from the biggest, most stubborn ego in rock n roll... recently Axl Rose dialed back his ego and brought back much of the talent that made Guns N' Roses an American classic. And from what I could tell when I saw them a few weeks ago, they are still capable of putting in an impressive show.

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To me, another GnR fan it makes perfect sense.   I saw them in KC.

"Take me down to the Cheyenne city, where the steam don't run but the bolts are purty, oh won't you please take me home..."

IC1038west Wrote: > ...oh won't you please take me home..."
(ROTHFLMAO) LOVE IT!!  :^)

Can I play, too:

"Welcome to the roundhouse I’ve got baubles, fun and games
I got the Kool-Aid you want sonny, I know all the names
I am Dear Leader that can tell you what you need
Since you got the money Pete-y I am ever your disease

"Welcome to my roundhouse I wreck it day by day
If you want steam you're gonna bleed but it's the price you pay
She’s a mud-filled girl and she’s very hard to please
I can paste her with bright sights but she won't get there for free

"Welcome to my roundhouse it gets worse here everyday
You’ll work like an animal in the roundhouse where I play"

ROFLMAO! !!!!!

santafe199 Wrote:
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> IC1038west Wrote: > ...oh won't you please take me
> home..."
> (ROTHFLMAO) LOVE IT!!  :^)
>
> Can I play, too:
>
> "Welcome to the roundhouse I’ve got baubles, fun
> and games
> I got the Kool-Aid you want sonny, I know all the
> names
> I am Dear Leader that can tell you what you need
> Since you got the money Pete-y I am ever your
> disease
>
> "Welcome to my roundhouse I wreck it day by day
> If you want steam you're gonna bleed but it's the
> price you pay
> She’s a mud-filled girl and she’s very hard to
> please
> I can paste her with bright sights but she won't
> get there for free
>
> "Welcome to my roundhouse it gets worse here
> everyday
> You’ll work like an animal in the roundhouse
> where I play"
 
Wow,  yes, game ON!  Fantastic!!!!   Hard to type through tears :-) . 
 "Well, well, well, we're in steam hell
well, well, well, that DL!

"We've been drinkin', DL's kool-aid,
got no steamers, but we're still getting paid..."

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