Great human element!
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The orange thing is actually nothing more than a plastic cover to keep one's switch list from getting wet in inclemet weather. It has clear plastic on the inside, to allow viewing of the list. BNSF covers are much more user-friendly than the one's Uncle Pete provides us; with several individual slots to hold more than one list. How one tells a conductor from a brakeman (or yard foreman from helper) from a switch list cover is unclear. He's certainly not the engineer, who would have better sense than to be out in the rain in the first place. Of course, it never rains in SoCal, from what I recall...
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Thanks for the information. As for raining in California, you should have seen the same street the following day.
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Great composition! Sad to see the Super Fleet in local service.
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Another way to tell that the man in the photo is the conductor and not an engineer is the man in the photo is actually working. (Conductor humor)
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Actually, Brother Larson, the BEST way to tell if he is conductor is to take a DNA sample from the saliva trail he left on his window while he was asleep and his engineer was keeping him alive going down the railroad track!!! (HogHead Humor...)
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