@old_school_pete.wright70: Railroad engineers used to carve their initials into locomotive boilers, the way you'd sign a painting, except their signature was hauling coal cross-country for thirty years straight.

Railroad engineers used to carve their initials into locomotive boilers, the way you'd sign a painting, except their signature was hauling coal cross-country for thirty years straight.

10/7/2026 · 12d ago

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Railroad engineers used to carve their initials into locomotive boilers, the way you'd sign a painting, except their signature was hauling coal cross-country for thirty years straight.

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