Re: UP 4014 - blow down piping
Author: Fact Checker
Date: 04-17-2019 - 21:58
jbjbjb Wrote:
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> Sad reading messages from all those who want the
> UP steam program will fail. I've met Ed Dickens
> and believe he and the steam crew are doing a good
> job to preserve main line steam for us all to
> enjoy.
So, you are an expert on management and steam locomotives, eh?
Cool!
And while the steam crew works to bring
> 4014 back to operation, there are the armchair
> experts who've never had a dirty hand working on
> any rail project, but they profess to be experts
> on all facets of railroading.
There are also a number of people who have devoted
most, if not all of their working careers to the jobs
of restoring, repairing, operating, budgeting and
working for railroads. So your broad brush slopped
slime on them as well as the other ones who deserve
it.
I agree there are a lot of people braying on the
internet who wouldn't know the first thing about
railroading or steam engines but think they do and
want others to think so, too. These are folks who
would never, ever be entrusted with running a steam
program or even a toy train.
And you've met the man. So what?