The Rouses Point yard engine was almost always a "steamer." Even in the summer, the sleeping cars on 9 and 10 needed steam heat. The steam generator was usually kept fired up at low heat in the winter to prevent freezing and to have it available on short notice. You have seen a few instances where Dick was called as an emergency engineer to take a unit, usually the RO yard engine, to Montreal to replace a unit crippled at The Glen. The steam generator was the fireman's responsibility whenever the steam generator was fired up and the locomotive was operating. Otherwise the hostler handled that.
