ronald 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.
> > 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.

Considering the shabby way the new regime treated them, and has spent the last 9 years bad-mouthing them, lying about them, and trying to blame all of their dumb mistakes on them, it shouldn't be any big wonder, now should it?

Kind of like you and Sam are doing.

Besides, what makes you so convinced that anybody who dares to say something you don't like is automatically an ex-steam crew member?

Because if so, that crew must have numbered in the hundreds, if not thousands.