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As a young person living in Southern California it was a great job. They had a decent career path too, usually hired from within. I ended up getting into union film work and moved on but I look back fondly on my time there.

My main job was canoe rowing then in the off season for the river they'd shuffle us around to other attractions, depending on where we'd been trained. Casey Jr was part of the fantasy land classics, so Dumbo, Snow White, etc. It was good duty on Casey cause you could check your phone and not be seen. I also liked seeing Storybook Land because it really is just the best garden railroad.
Whats odd is that I have the spiel memorized in Spanish, but not in English (damas y caballeros, ninos y ninas!)

I tried hard to jump to main street, because that's who gets to work on the steam trains (same engineers operate the Mark Twain riverboat too, real steam engine on that) but the engineers were a tight crew and you have to apprentice as a fireman for many years to do it.
 
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Quick Casey update, no pictures. After some evaluation I decided that the brass sheet used was too thin. Casey has been remade in .04 sheet. All the pieces are in paint so it will be a bit before images are posted. The side and push rods are made as well as the trailing truck. I did drill out the wheel centers and made brass inserts. I then drilled the inserts to match the axles and squared the bottoms with an end mill. He tracks straight as can be. I'm attempting to get vinyl cut for painting masks of the graphics. Final assembly is still some days away.
 
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