Railroad Maintenance Cat Spotlight-Dirt The Nevada East Ely Railway Maintenance Cats
Dirt the Nevada East Ely Railway Maintenance Cat Hi All, Happy Monday, to start off the week I wanted to spotlight Dirt who works at the East Ely Railway Maintenance Cat. I'll give brief points about Dirt with a link to the source down below. He was born there 13-years ago to a stray cat that wandered in. His mom had her kittens under one of our trains, and a 1907 built rotary snowplow to be exact. After his mom and the other kittens left, this one beautiful cat was all alone but scared to come out. Took a can of tuna to bring out the little kitten and was able to warm up to the crews. From the article: "The adorable cat loved rolling around on the dirt floors of the engine house and climb all over the coal pines on our steam-powered train, so the crews named him Dirt. The name stuck as did the coal: “The cat’s fur pattern is actually white and orange, but because at a young age he started rolling in the dirt and climbing on the trains, his white fur gets ...