Well, since the OP mentioned railroad engineers in the late 1950s, this is as good a place as any to mention the ‘George’ scene from the mid-1950s Union Pacific Safety film “Days of Our Years”, (Taking you back to 2006…
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The Kato Engineers look a lot like the ill-fated UP short George did in the mid-1950s, so that’s pretty good. However, I note that the Yard crew has two engineers (seated, one with beard) in work clothes, two conductors wearing t-shirts and jeans, like they just stepped out of “Untame Youth” or some other late-50s teen epic, and the brakemen…are wearing the dreaded bib overalls (boo!).
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Even I got into the fray (well, you’d figure that) back in the day (2005! Dang, I hate when you remember something you posted a ‘few’ years back…only to find a few is 7 years!). This one started because I complained about the lack of auto-mechanic figures in coveralls (which is what the guys in my area were in the body shops/garages - that or button down shirts/jeans) - coveralls or equivalent because as was pointed out, the buttons and snaps on bib overalls could scratch and gouge paint finishes. Even at that time it seemed Bib overalls for RR workers were more or less memories, but that farm workers, and some other tradesmen would wear b