All too often we think of the steam railroads being run by a bunch of "older" guys. For the most part, the "younger" guys have a hard time breaking into groups that have an average age of 97.5 years old.

I know there are MANY young people roaming this and other Railroad type pages. We, as leaders of tourist railroads and museums need to reach out to these younger folks and welcome them into a wonderful industry full of great educational oppertunities and a many new frienships.

Over the next three months, I will post a note like this one, asking for applications from young people wanting to become invloved in an active steam program. Here are a few rules:

You must be 18 to apply

Please send a formal resume with pictures if possible

Send a list of contact people who can be contacted and who indeed know you.

Write a short letter explianing why you want to work with steam.

Please send your appliactions to:

John E. Rimmasch
Heber Valley Railroad
Operations Department
450 South 600 West
Heber Ut 84032

Feel free to call me with any questions or concerns. I typically work Tuesday-Saturday 9-5:30 Mountain Satndard Time

If Heber is a bit too far for you, please send the same application to your local tourist RR or Train Museum......You never know what could happen!

Good luck and I hope to hear from you......all of you!

John E. Rimmasch
HVRR

jrimmasch@yahoo.com



jrimmasch@yahoo.com

I'm not quite 97 yet, but it won;t be long!

Hats off to you and your company, sir. We need more young folks being taught the crafts and how to SAFELY tend to the railroad chores. Give me a note back channel.
Ken

Steam Locomotive Technical books
ken290@hiwaay.net

Hey John,

Give me a few years and I'll jump at a opportunity like that. Only 3 or so to go. Keep me in mind for later....=)

Hayes S.

crzhaze@rrmail.com

> Feel free to call me with any questions or
> concerns. I typically work Tuesday-Saturday
> 9-5:30 Mountain Satndard Time

His phone number is 1-435-654-5601 extension 105

sc 'doc' lewis

Heber Valley Railroad
utweyesguy@aol.com

Thanks for providing not only the oportunity but this public notice of your doing it which hopefully will encourage other groups to do the same. I hope you have the same good fortune with your program I had with the one I did in Savannah a couple years ago.

dave

From this 28 year old: THANK YOU. I just wish I was still working summer jobs, and didn't have a family to support! Anyone who is over 18: go for it; turst me, chances like this just don't come along very often!

TJG

> All too often we think of the steam
> railroads being run by a bunch of
> "older" guys. For the most part,
> the "younger" guys have a hard
> time breaking into groups that have an
> average age of 97.5 years old.

> I know there are MANY young people roaming
> this and other Railroad type pages. We, as
> leaders of tourist railroads and museums
> need to reach out to these younger folks and
> welcome them into a wonderful industry full
> of great educational oppertunities and a
> many new frienships.

> Over the next three months, I will post a
> note like this one, asking for applications
> from young people wanting to become invloved
> in an active steam program. Here are a few
> rules:

> You must be 18 to apply

> Please send a formal resume with pictures if
> possible

> Send a list of contact people who can be
> contacted and who indeed know you.

> Write a short letter explianing why you want
> to work with steam.

> Please send your appliactions to:

> John E. Rimmasch
> Heber Valley Railroad
> Operations Department
> 450 South 600 West
> Heber Ut 84032

> Feel free to call me with any questions or
> concerns. I typically work Tuesday-Saturday
> 9-5:30 Mountain Satndard Time

> If Heber is a bit too far for you, please
> send the same application to your local
> tourist RR or Train Museum......You never
> know what could happen!

> Good luck and I hope to hear from
> you......all of you!

> John E. Rimmasch
> HVRR

> jrimmasch@yahoo.com


Port Huron Museum
tjgaffney@phmuseum.org

Thanks for posting this John.I would only be able to this on the weekends and maybe holidays but only close rr to me is the Strasburg.I would be happy just to even be a fireman on a steamer.

steamtrain90@aol.com

OOPS Hit wrong button.
Just wanted to say this is a GREAT idea. The Alaska RR uses many high school age kids as hosts on their pasenger trains during the summer.
Every RR and RR museum needs to encourage young people to participate or we will lose them forever because most will never know trains the way previous generations did.

rgraner@aol.com

How involved is it to learn to be a fireman?Is there any books out there to read up on?I drove a 0-6-0 in williams grove and there was more to it than I thought but it was great..Any help would be appreciated.Hope everyone had a great weekend..

steamtrain90@aol.com

SORRY JOHN, I JUST COULDN'T LET THE GRAET GO ON!!

> How involved is it to learn to be a
> fireman?Is there any books out there to read
> up on?I drove a 0-6-0 in williams grove and
> there was more to it than I thought but it
> was great..Any help would be
> appreciated.Hope everyone had a great
> weekend..

To answer your question, for hand firing I would recommend a book called "Fuel Economy" (available through Ken Riddle's publishing company). It got me started with some basics. Here at Heber Valley, John has just instituted a progressive training program for firemen through steam engineers. He has pulled/adapted instructional materials from some of the old manuals/catechisms and created a syllabus and testing system to learn as you go.

No more 'grandfathering' of the 'old hats'
-- everyone at Heber is to re-certify on the new system by the end of May.

sc 'doc' lewis

Heber Valley Railroad

utweyesguy@aol.com