Scroll down on the Altamont Press here for a good piece on the first female engineer to reach retirement age:

http://railroadnews.net/news/4-11.html

Roughly 200 years after the first train ran, railroading is still essentially a white man's world, especially since there are now few clerks left. It's not quite as bad now, but she must have put up with a lot over the years.