So I havent been chasing trains much lately but I saw a photo with some guy named Ed Dickens and it named him Steam manager for UP. Has Lee retired? Who else has finally retired? Who is the current crew?
Thanks
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I believe Steve Lee is probably Ed Dickens’ boss. Steve’s title is listed as "Superintendent, Heritage Operations. Ed Dickens is “Manager, Heritage Equipment and Facilities”.
Following is a link to the roster of all personnel on the current excursion:
http://www.uprr.com/newsinfo/attachments/media_kit/steam/844_crew.pdf
Steve Lee has retired, effective now.
Not quite true. Steve is retiring effective the end of the year. See the following Newswire article:
Union Pacific steam guru Steve Lee to retirePublished: November 16, 2010
Union Pacific steam program director Steve Lee. Photo by David Hoge CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Union Pacific steam program boss Steve Lee will retire at the end of this year after 22 years in his position. Lee has become synonymous with the program during his tenure. Lee went railroading in January 1972 as a student fireman on the Illinois Central. He became an engineer later that year, and worked at IC until 1977, when he took a job as trainmaster and road foreman for Rock Island. Amid the Rock’s bankruptcy, Lee interviewed with UP, becoming the division general road foreman of engines at Cheyenne, Wyo., in 1980. He took formal charge of the steam program in 1989. In a 2008 interview with TRAINS columnist Peter A. Hansen, Lee contemplated his retirement. “Everybody thinks the world’s going to end when I retire, and it’s not,” he said. “I’m going to leave this thing in good shape, I’ll leave it with momentum. Whoev |
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He has run his last steam train for the UP.