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I am and always have been a so called rail fan and I worked in the railroad industry for 53 years in engine service both as an engineer and a General Road foreman of Engines-Trainmaster. I was asked by a Superintendent to hire on the railroad as he used to see me along the railroad and in locomotive cabs (got caught many times by the trainmaster ) and near his office a lot and saw that I was responsible to safety. I didn't go on the railroad for the money as a supervisor the engineers made more that I did and had better hours but I had a challange of running a division and many commuter trains this is what I wanted and still do today at 70 (a lot smaller railroad today) . I remember that superintendent saying to me that he was happy I came on board after my Army time in Korea as an engineer in the 724th TBRO. <br />Yes they were long hours and my wife brought up the kids but I have had a great railroading life. I have 56,000 railroad slides movies videos and a huge book collection, You see rworking for a railroad just made a bigger railfan. as a manager I had to be a closet railfan as a rail fan was not looked up to by top managment. I still did my thing as I am doing today just got 3 rolls of film back and I am doing a lot of digitel great life huh? <br />Hogger
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