THE FLYING ENGINEER

By E. R. Dugan
Published on November 1, 1967
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E. R. Dugan
Courtesy of E. R. Dugan, 436 North Library, Waterloo, Illinois 62298 The Flying Engineer, E. R. Dugan and his co-pilot, Joe Dugan, Jr. (Mr. Dugan called this story the Flying Engineer - he did do some flying around, but I was thrown off a bit because I th

436 North Library, Waterloo, Ill. 62298

I had always wanted to be a R.R. engineer, so one fine morning
in the Spring of s920 I hired out to the Missouri Pacific R.R. as
fireman. I had to take three student runs under supervision of
regular fireman. With my experience as traction engineer, I
didn’t have any trouble learning to fire the big railroad hog.

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