Hot Water Wrote:
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> ronald Wrote:
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> > Go to LA in October and watch this cool steam
> > engine roll by.It's an experience.
> Please pay attention "Ronald". The UP didn't "get
> rid of" ANY members of the previous steam crew!
> Each and every one of them, including quite a few
> of the "hand picked" replacements, either retired,
> exercised their seniority rights to return to
> their previous craft, or simply flat out quit the
> UP.

I did not know that. Judging from such negative comments about the 4014 running again after 60 years or so across huge parts of the UP system i assumed some of the previous steam crew had been "fired". If the old steam crew left on their own decision they sure carried a ton of resentment with them.