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Wallyworld says:[quote]QUOTE: I talked to some former steam men-they didnt miss leaning out a cab looking down a boiler barrel peering into the darkness looking for a signal or a hoop or the heat of a firebox in summer-but when I heard them talk, the way they talked and sometimes they said it was like nothing else and in their own way, it was like they lost a freind when the diesels came.[/quote]Funny, but I've heard just the opposite. During the last days of steam on the SP, dispatchers had a heck of a time finding crews for trains running steam power. A lot of the guys would ask what the power was, and when they heard it was steam, they'd beg off. BTW, this comes from someone that actually liked steam. But most of his co-workers didn't. There may have been some true craftsmen out there, but if so, I think they were in the minority. Most of the guys who reminisce about steam are the same kind of guys that will say "There hasn't been any good music since . . ."(which is usually something significant in the speaker's life, like when he graduated from college, or got married, or something else that doesn't have anything at all to do with music). When they talk about the "good old days," they're saying more about who they were in that day than about what those days were like.
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