Looked at it again. He's still saying you're Number 1.
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Uh, guys,
I downloaded the picture onto my computer and Zoomed in on the photo.
He's not flipping a bird. His thumb and all 4 of his fingers are up. As nutty as it sounds the railing is actually directly behind the middle and 4th fingers. The man is waving.......not giving a one finger salute.
I've met a lot of railroaders in the past 2 decades. A few even had the rough "Fred Flintstone" personalities, but these guys took pride in their jobs--even during labor disputes--and unless you were a "punk" holding a bottle or rocks to throw at them; these railroad professionals usually gave either a wave, or head nod to shutterbug railfans.
A one finger "bird" salute to a photgrapher would not make any sense; especially since the locomotive's numbers are clearly visible and all a photographer would have to do is send the photo to the local paper or even the railroad officials. From my understanding railroad brass have low tolerance for this kind of stuff from railroaders on duty in the public eye. Union Stewards get aggravated at having to defend union members in hearings that are charged with doing "idiotic stuff" like flipping off the public.
While I'm sure it does happen, it doesn't seem to be the case here. Again, if you have a quality photo viewer and can zoom-in download this photo and look carefully.
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I agree with Antonio.
I just had a really close look at the pic on my computer & it is indeed the upper railing directly behind his hand.
Gordon
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You guys are all wrong, he is waving but at the moment of the picture his hand is slightly turned sidways so that you see the lower part of the pinky but the rest of the hand and fingures are in a row.
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