This being a fambly site, I ain’t gonna say nuttin, 'cept she looks like a very competent mechanic. Besides, do you see the size of that pipe wrench??!!!
… and the pearls.
Definitely not a mechanic I’d argue with!
Must be a supervisor, or just came ‘on shift’… I only know one person who can work on steam and stay clean like that. – he does more jawing than anything else.
Also, it’s only an 18" pipe wrench… a REAL wrench would have been too heavy for a photo shoot.
nice fantasy pic
Lipstick and Live Steam are not something one sees for long…sooty face and smudged “red” after climbing a smokebox or firebox with the flue brush…
That individiual is, I believe, or at least was at one time, an actual engineer for the Grand Canyon railroad … there was a photo of her in the cab running the locomotive that circulated in the various forae some time ago, that I’ve been unable to locate in recent history. Photo went with an article someone wrote about her, and her views on what by all accounts was an unusual occupation for a female…
Matthew (OV)
Keep 'em coming Steve…this post drew Dave and Matthew outta the woodwork (bad puns)…
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If you made that black and white it would resemble a Rosy the Riveter picture…
Hey Steve, photo goes great with your current sig line 
like this?
(http://supersol-chaco.net/bahn/engineer.JPG)
now it resembles one of these “working for victory” pics every country published during WW2
My son Eli is what used to be called a ‘dandy’… he agreed to help bead some tubes, once. And that was only AFTER I power brushed the entire firebox.
(http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt7/tigerlillie06/His%20Stuff/eli3a.jpg)
Based on that, I give her outfit 5 minutes.
(http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt7/tigerlillie06/His%20Stuff/eli6.jpg)
does this version work for a wartime color magazine print?
(http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt7/tigerlillie06/His%20Stuff/business%20car/79321288576932-2.jpg)
I can remember gettin in the firebox of our Keck-Gonnerman every summer at the end of the show season and given it a good scrubbing before we stored it for the winter. There never was a happeir dirtier little boy. Now I’m too damn big to squeeze in the thing. The worst was one year my uncle forgot I was in there and started cleanin the flues, scared the hell out of me when that sucker popped thru on my end.
Yes, Mik, very nice. - but too late. for the next war steam is too oldfashioned and for the one after the next - steam will be too much high tec…