Bilko Wrote:
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> SPENCER, N.C. - "The N.C. Transportation Museum’s
> next major railroad event, 'Streamliners at
> Spencer' -May 29 through June 1, 2014.
>

>
> Union Pacific appoints J. Scott George as steam
> shop director -January 9, 2015
>
> - - -
>
> My senior memory fog remembers a stranded E9 at
> the spencer event due to wheel damage from leaving
> a brake on (not sure what crew was responsible for
> that).

Actually the E Unit was NOT "stranded at the Spencer event", but wound up with the flat spotted wheel (from the hand brake) enroute to Kansas City. However, since the manager at Cheyenne did not bother to follow the unit enroute to his own railroad in Kansas City, there is no telling exactly who did not release the handbrake.


> Ed Dickens did not "fix it" and left the E9
> stranded because "36inch wheels are difficult to
> find" he said.
>
> That went on for about seven months until Scott
> George showed up.


Mr. George had nothing to do with correcting the situation. A member of the Union Pacific Historical Society, who was VERY familiar with the UP E Units, and how many spare traction motor, wheel, axle & gear "combos" were sitting on the shop floor in Cheyenne, alerted a high level UP Mechanical Dept. person in Omaha. It thus didn't take long for the order to roll down hill to Cheyenne and a truck was quickly dispatched to Cheyenne in order to transport one of the spare "combos" to Kansas City to replace the bad wheel. More egg on the face of the current manager in Cheyenne!

> In short order,the unit had new wheels on it and
> the E9 was back home.
>
> I always figured it was no big deal for a Jenks
> guy to fix the problem.

He didn't.