Show I Il I II Ii l I f i I. I t r sP Casey Jones No Jesse Stoker Is Mounting to the Cabin aLE 4 WS Jesse Stoker Will Move Soon from Local Line to Evanston Therell There'll be a new on the Park City local very soon Jesse L L. Stok Stoker r is getting ready to move And every everyone everyone everyone one from front Og Ogden en to Keetley will miss his smile and ami his wave A jus just t in case you arent aren't up on aft your Ca Casey ey Jones is the engineer of a train trails and the Park City local is isa isa isla la a Union Pacific freight train which leaves leave Ogden early carly every morning stops everywhere switches cars leaves lea off cars picks up cars carb and gets back into Ogden late that bame same evening Jesse Stoker went ent to work for the Union Pacific as a fireman back in 1923 1323 He lIe has moved up through the ranks and later this mon month h he will take his place at lit the throttle me sue boss is there a throttle on oil a u diesel l of a u mainline mainline main main- line freight and then he plans to take over a II passenger run from I Evanston vall ton to Ogden His first run in 19 1923 3 was waa to Park Palk City In those days the mark of a good fireman was his ability to spread pread an even cven layer of coal over the gleaming fire ii in the firebox A good average load was 2100 tons tOil and amid now the big uig freights haul hall 1 an all average of tons tOlls up the steep grade in ill the Weber Ca Canyon Can Can- yon you Tho The popular has lias seen cen the change from froth hall hand hand- fired to stoker fired to oil burners to diesels s to gas turbine and he a admits mits that he lie still mis misses es the whistle on the big steam engines which have base become obsolete Piling up a lot of hours on the Park City rut run Jesse Je se spends his vacation time in travel Will Winter tel in ill Arizona is hi his s idea of the good life but he loves Utah in ill the summer His associates illi insist bt that Jesse Stoker is the finest sheepherder sheepherder sheep sheep- herder in the West l and nd the they tell teU tall tales of his ability in inthe inthe inthe the earlier days to stand out on the cow catcher ringing abell a abell abell bell and whistling and lild shouting uptown curses C as hi his hi train traill pulled through a big band of covering the track in Silver Creek canyon lIe He has had his sad times tines too ton as us cars ears and trucks did their best to beat his engine acro across the track tracks On occasion there was nothing to do but pick up lip the pieces Jesse prefers to remember the times fun such as the story of the Coalville lady ladr who entered an official protest because the Union Pacific was destro destroying ing her flock of chickens chicken II How is this possible We have never lIever seen scon chickens on the track II Of Of course not she snorted II Its It s 's that dad dad blamed blamed whistle Every time Jesse pulls the cord the baby chicks panic and stack up lip in a corner and half of them suffocate Ah says Tease Jesse Stoker Thov Tho- were re truly hul the good old days |