Harry Bundy...

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In a message dated 7/6/04 3:04:52 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:
One account that sticks in my mind was what he wrote about
the many delays getting over the road in those days that often resulted in
long, long hours shoveling coal as a fireman, before the Federal Hours of
Service Law, of course.  He wrote something to the effect that at times he
was so fatigued that he would drift off to sleep standing up on the bouncing
engine deck!
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I remember Grandad telling me that he thought farming was hard work until he 
went to firing on the Virginian, and that I would never know what hard work 
was until I had hand-fired a steam locomotive for hours on end. Grandma would 
tell me how when Grandad first went to firing, he would sometimes come home so 
exhausted, that he would flop down on the bed and pass out without even 
bothering to take off his greasy, sooty overalls or clean up.

Greg Harrod
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