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I recently visited the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga. They were running steam, and they had a shop where they could do a lot of restoration. One of their projects included driver maintenance for other rail museums, on a contract basis. They claimed they were the only shop in North America capable of doing the work. They also said that they had to hire a nuclear reactor vessel welder to come in and do the welding on a boiler they were rebuilding. Apparently, the trade of boilermaker relative to steam engines is a dead art in the USA. I would guess that Steamtown has a curator or two who can do the work... A question- it took years to qualify as a locomotive engineer in the so called "Golden Age" of railroads. I wonder how museum engineers are trained and licensed- I assume they have to be licensed and qualified. Who are the instructors? How did they qualify? I suspect that there aren't that many locomotive engineers around who actually ran steam on main line roads.... they must be getting a little long in the tooth by now. Erik
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