I don't think there has ever been a woman crew person for any steam locomotive. It took the San Francisco Muni 125 years to finally hire a dame on a cable car there. These rail vehicles are physically demanding with heavy grip levers. My father jokingly called them "bobble cars" because operating them is quite a juggling act. That they even have woman personnel on board Amtrak is radical enough. In the 1970's, ATSF had a television commercial touting women driving diesel electrics. It was the biggest glass-ceiling buster of its day since women got voting rights in America. The woman (CB handle, Little Beaver) driving a truck in Smokey in the Bandit probably raised some eyebrows.