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Docent Engineer At The Controls

Gene Anderson has been working in Steam Locomotives all his adult life. I believe he said in Oregon. Now he is a volunteer docent at the Southern Arizona Transportation Museum in Tucson, Arizona.

 

I don't remember why this more complete control panel was outside of the engine itself...

 

As a young boy, I often walked down to the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks near my home to get as close to the trains going by as possible. I love any kind of locomotive. Later, when I had children, I took my fifth child, a boy to the switching yard in Salem Massachusetts. Engineers often invited us up into the engines. They were diesel electrics

 

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Uploaded on July 6, 2014
Taken on June 14, 2014