Riding a Yellowstone with new friends.

At the scales west of Proctor it was customary to break a 180-car ore train in two, letting the road engine draw the first cars over the scale. On another topic, the engineer said derisively, "The yardmaster thinks he can train an engineer in two days and have him operating independently the third." Features AT AGE 18, I got the chance to ride in the cab of a Yellowstone steam engine as they were making their last runs. [Extracted from the article]