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  • The last run: Railroad's first female engineer ends 34-year career (The Pantagraph)Using a flashlight to guide her way on a cold, moonless Saturday night, locomotive engineer Kathy Guy of Pekin walks away from the train she has just parked in the Crescent yards south of Pekin. | Photo gallery


  • Olde Towne honors county engineer (The Adobe Press)San Luis Obispo County resident engineer Steve Frank was honored for his work overseeing bridge construction in Nipomo at an Olde Towne Nipomo Association special dinner Feb. 7.


  • Taliban frees captive Chinese engineer in Pakistan (USA Today)Pakistani Taliban militants have freed a Chinese engineer held captive for nearly six months, officials said Sunday, as fears rose for the safety of an abducted American threatened with imminent death by his kidnappers.


  • Wayne Thomas dies at 77; voice of 'red light, green light' for TV's Engineer Bill (Los Angeles Times)Thomas, a staff announcer at L.A.'s Channel 9 for 27 years, also created the Oscars-prediction show 'Your Choice for the Oscars.' Wayne Thomas, who as Freight Train Wayne was the off-screen voice orchestrating the "red light, green light" milk-drinking game that was a highlight of the children's TV show hosted by Engineer Bill, has died. He was 77.


  • Is Calling a Software Engineer a 'Programmer' an Insult? (IT Management)"That's an insult!" That was feedback I received from my last article when I referred to someone who writes software code for a living as an ?engineer.?


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