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Article: Train enthusiasts can be steam locomotive engineer for a day
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- Press of Atlantic City
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- March 4, 2007
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BAKER CITY, Ore. - Bob Butler doesn't appear a bit baffled at the knobs and levers and gauges before him, and isn't even breaking a sweat despite the heat - 174 degrees on a digital thermometer - radiating from the boiler a mere foot or two away.
He is the perfect picture of a steam train engineer. Except for that grin - a smile of pure delight that he is sitting in the control seat and about to take hold of the lever to guide the train down the track.
Model railroads are his hobby; steam engines are his passion.
"I'm old enough, I was around at the end of the steam engine era," he says.
Butler, 60, of Olympia, Wash., was the first person to take advantage of the new Engineer for a ...