Steam & Excursion > Servicing UP 8444 1970

Turning UP 8444 in Laramie on an excursion from Denver.

Bob Wilcox
Charlottesville, VA
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That is a great photo Bob. I love it when the human side is presented too.

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY

Great shot!  No look of fan trip what so ever ..... maybe the rubber gloves, but well done picture.

That's a great image.  Gerry

By the looks of him, he'd probably done it hunfreds of times bedore as an engine wiper or a hostler attendant 20 or 30 years earlier.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/09/18 19:28 by patd3985.

Very nice tribute Bob to ALL those that keep the trains running.

BB

They both need a bath, man and engine.

Probably he did it ten or eleven years earlier.

patd3985 Wrote:
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> By the looks of him, he'd probably done it
> hunfreds of times bedore as an engine wiper or a
> hostler attendant 20 or 30 years earlier.
Pat,
FYI, back in the day on the UP it was mainly the machinists that did the rod doping. All the major crew change terminals had roundhouses with staff.

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY

Very nice..!!

Can you imagine that grainy mass of steel revolving at 80mph?

11 times per second.

Bob3985 Wrote:
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> patd3985 Wrote:
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> > By the looks of him, he'd probably done it
> > hunfreds of times bedore as an engine wiper or
> a
> > hostler attendant 20 or 30 years earlier.
> Pat,
> FYI, back in the day on the UP it was mainly the
> machinists that did the rod doping. All the major
> crew change terminals had roundhouses with staff.

Thanx Bob! It makes sense now that I think about it. However, I did some light lube work and  re-fueling on the Diseasels as an Engine Wiper and Hostler Attendant on 2nd trick at Albina from time to time many, many years ago!