Kathi - I asked one time a while back about women on railroads - ops dept. Got mixed reviews, but a lot of the people said they enjoyed working with the women and that the women did a good job. I was pleased with that. Women truck drivers and fire fighters still cause me to look, but why not. as long as they can do the physical work. And one of the captains of our fire station 1/2 block away is a woman!
Jen
My wife, logged into trains mag. one time. She came up to me and said “All those people talk about is trains”. I told her yes, all the people on that Web sight are railfans or are interested in railroads. She looked at me and said “For the amount of time you spend on the computer, I thought it was a porn site.”
TIM A
10A: Keep Kodak, Fuji & the others crankin’ out the film?
Mookie: I think this hobby is why the dogs deeded over the doghouse to me (at the wife’s suggestion)…
Porn is the next best thing.[:D]
But i’m not old enough to discuss that kind of thing. I spend about 1 1/2 hrs here per day.
Actually both of you are better off here. It is cleaner than tv, more interesting than most co-workers/peers and the cost is right!
Mook
That’s what I hear, too. I once interviewed a woman who was foreman of a track gang in Alaska. Sweet. And just last week I met a couple women who are mechanics at Washington Metro’s Brentwood maintenance facility. Almost all the women I’ve talked to agree the physical labor part is hard for them to pull off, but they do it, and that’s really all that matters.
I’ve got a friend in Chattanooga, Tenn., who works in a railcar storage facility. If a car is stored, she can tell you which track it’s on and how many cars back. If it’s out on lease, she knows who has it and about when it’s expected back. Another friend in Jacksonville sells locomotives. Still another leases covered hoppers in the Chicago area. I love talking with them all and learning to see railroading through each of their perspectives. It’s so much more meaningful than what I can glean just on my own. Ya gotta have peeps.
Kathi
This duck walks into a pharmacy and asks for some chapstick.
The clerk says, “That will be one dollar, please”.
The duck says, “I don’t have any money, just put in on my bill”.[;)]
matt says quack quack! he he
stay safe
joe