Canadian Railroads > did you say PPE

...notice the NAR trainman (far left) in all his sartorial splendor, seen here after tying up in Peace River July 1979.

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Evertime I see this photo it makes me laugh! Switching cars in nothing but work boots and gonch! (I wouldn't call those homemade Daisy Dukes shorts)

-Trevor

Is that Erik Estrada on the far right???

I thought that kind of "undress" was against the rules!

Nature boy must have been immune to mosquito bites.

MarkMeoff Wrote:
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> Is that Erik Estrada on the far right???


Erik Estrada, William Holden, Karl Malden and a young Charles Bronson......

Maybe THIS was a contributing factor to NAR becoming a "fallen flag"?

I worked many trips with the guy on the far left, and as far as I know he's still with CN. Couldn't imagine him wearing "nothing" today..........

Locotrol2

Been there, done that. Super hot day at Kelowna, all the crew hung out on the beach in swim suits, and then put CP train 90 for Revelstoke together, and headed north (still in swim suits).

Didn't see it myself, but I believe Carol (CP's first train person)switched Kelowna in a bikini.

eminence_grise Wrote:
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> Been there, done that. Super hot day at Kelowna,
> all the crew hung out on the beach in swim suits,
> and then put CP train 90 for Revelstoke together,
> and headed north (still in swim suits).
>
> Didn't see it myself, but I believe Carol (CP's
> first train person)switched Kelowna in a bikini.

I lived in the Okanagan for a couple of years back in the mid-1970s ... it was over 100F almost every day in the summer.
Parts of the valley are technically a desert. I don't blame the crews for working in as few clothes as possible!

Will MacKenzie
Dundas, ON

thehighwayman Wrote:
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> Parts of the valley are technically a desert. I
> don't blame the crews for working in as few
> clothes as possible!


It is a desert. It is Canada's only warm weather desert.

Rick

eminence_grise Wrote:
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> Didn't see it myself, but I believe Carol (CP's
> first train person)switched Kelowna in a bikini.

Nothing wrong with that...;) the ole Connie in a man-kini however; that would be an egregious violation of just about everything...



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/11/13 07:50 by xcnsnake.

eminence_grise Wrote:
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> Been there, done that. Super hot day at Kelowna,
> all the crew hung out on the beach in swim suits,
> and then put CP train 90 for Revelstoke together,
> and headed north (still in swim suits).
>
> Didn't see it myself, but I believe Carol (CP's
> first train person)switched Kelowna in a bikini.

Are you referring to Carol Latte? In 1979 Walter Paffard set things up where I was able to ride a westbound coal train from Revelstoke to Kamloops so I could catch my Pacific Western 737 from there to return home after a wonderful vacation of railfanning in the Canadian rockies. Tobey Brocollo and Carol Latte were the head end crew. I'll have to dig out some slides and have them scanned.

Ah, those were the days . . .