You can also see ex-PRR E8 5744 sitting in the shop slowly but surly under restoration. It will be painted IC colors to match the passenger cars at the museum
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Love the Gyralite Switch,above the engineers side window.Yeah you don't see that very often.Thanks Zach.
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Pretty cramped compared to what we have nowadays
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I'll say this--that seat doesn't hold a candle to the La-Z-Boys we have today.
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Now you see why most older locomotive engineers have crook backs. Its from the years early during their careers when they spent long night-shifts in those uncomfortable bloody seats that first-generation diesels had. I spent years working in EMD G12 and G22 locomotives in New Zealand, so I've got a bad back. I'm still working as a locomotive engineer after almost 41 years though, although the locomotives we operate these days have Rolls-Royce seats compared to what we put up with when I was starting out.
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