Anyone catch this? Mike Rowe did duty in the MPI locomotive facility in Boise. He did different jobs through the plant, from frame assembly even to the remanufacture of a 16-710G3 engine. All in all, I thought it was a very good and informative show. This is what other shows should try for when covering the railroad industry IMO.
i liked it too…the spot light was on the people and their jobs not the industry as a whole
I enjoyed this Episode…as I watched I had a mental picture of some of the nitpicking posts which will probably turn up on the various Railfan forums, such as: “I WISH THEY EXPLAINED THAT MPI USES PRIMEMOVERS MADE BY EMD OR DESIGNED BY EMD BUT NOW BUILT BY GE THEY SHOULD’VE SHOWN THE WHOLE ASSEMBLY PROCESS”…Which would miss the point of the program given that Dirty Jobs focuses on the most tough, repetitive, and well…“dirty” aspects of the different industries they spotilight rather than being a concise documentary of the manufacturing process…
At least he’s not like Matt Bown. asking a seasond engineer, “are you scared”? I haven’t seen this episode, I will have to watch for re-run’s.
The only thing DIRTY about the job, was that he got to run the engine and not me.
Even though it was a diesel. “HA” that what was dirty about it.
Many of the jobs at MPI were more dangerous than just dirty. Nothing looked as dirty as those photos of Steam Era roundhouses, thankfully.
Andrew