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Posted by BaltACD on Monday, May 8, 2017 10:06 PM

Females have been qualified Engineers for 30 years or more in my experience.

Never too old to have a happy childhood!

              

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Posted by Electroliner 1935 on Monday, May 8, 2017 9:44 PM

Does anyone know how many lady engineers there are today. I know Amtrak has some. When I rode the Carl Sandburg (#381) to Quincy, it had a lady engineer and she was solo in the cab. When the Ft Worth Dispatcher radioed to issue an order for a meet between Galesburg & Quincy, she brought the train to a nice smooth stop, received the order, read it back, DS made it "Complete" and away we went. I was sitting near the conductor and he also copied it. 

Also had one on a Pacific Surfliner (#769). She was operating in the cab car and I requested to be allowed to come forward (rope across the aisle) and she said I needed to stay back by the stairs which I did. Cab door was open and at one stop, after cussing out the brakes ( I think she overshot the desired stopping point) she then jumped out of the cab, ran down the stairs, and assisted the station agent in some labor and came back up and away we went. Both handled their trains like the pro's they were. 

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Monday, May 8, 2017 4:56 PM

zugmann
edblysard
…my experience with female engineers is they smell better than the guys!

That hurt, Ed.

Probably not as bad as if it had said they smell worse... and one of them found out about it!

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Posted by zugmann on Monday, May 8, 2017 4:29 PM

edblysard
…my experience with female engineers is they smell better than the guys!

That hurt, Ed.

It's been fun.  But it isn't much fun anymore.   Signing off for now. 


  

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Posted by edblysard on Monday, May 8, 2017 4:21 PM

Durn it...let me see how to fix it...

Try this

http://www.up.com/aboutup/community/inside_track/index.htm

 

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Monday, May 8, 2017 4:08 PM

That looks like an e-mail address... not a web page URL

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lady locomotive engineers
Posted by edblysard on Monday, May 8, 2017 3:56 PM
 
Hope the link works, story about women working on the railroad, concentrates on UP’s first female locomotive engineer, followed by the hiring of their first black female engineer.

 

Not real sure why the author differentiates between the two based on color…my experience with female engineers is they smell better than the guys!

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