ColdWater Wrote:
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> 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. Forget all
> > the
> > > BS dribbled out by the old steam boy's who
> > > couldn't cut the mustard. They where wise to
> > get
> > > rid of them because they not team players.
> >
> > 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.
>
> How long did you work for the UP?

I was a Contractor. Thus, I spent 17 years as a Contract Fireman for the "previous" Steam Crew, and when Steve Lee retired at the end of 2010, I also "retired" from contractoring.