What's a full day as STEAM TRAIN CREW like?

This past Sunday, I spent my last day as a volunteer at the ‪@coloradorailroadmuseum‬ . That's only because I'm joining the museum as full time staff shortly, so expect more content :). Special thanks to the Museum for letting me film and help out, as always! I tried to capture what the full day entails, as much as I could without incriminating anyone too hard... lol! The two runs shown with me firing, then running, were the start and end of the day. In the middle, we BS'ed and I tossed cameras all over the place for future videos. :)

Make sure you check out ‪@bryanburtonphotography‬'s channel and videos, he's genuinely one of the most wonderful and kind humans I've met, and truly a superstar photographer. The video he did about 491 is here:    • CRRM DRGW 491 081322  

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0:00 To the Museum!
1:56 Check on the engine first thing
3:00 Chat w/ Bryan
4:33 - COFFEE and convos
5:32 to the ashpit; 491's whistle
9:18 cleaning ashes and loading coal
12:22 Promoted to fireman; cleaning the engine out
17:03 backing up to the train
18:33 on the train and getting set up
20:02 heading down for the first run of the day
23:23 engineer training conversations
26:07 prep for first run
27:37 I fire the first run; 491 centers up
40:46 engineer training conversations 2
42:11 Hyce Engineer in a thunderstorm
52:40 Back at the shop
55:06 Get up in my GTO - and head home.