[CBQ] Re: What's The Hostler Doing?

["Richard Wolter rawolter@verizon.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

In this thread, post 2C by “Phil”, he mentioned that a coal-burner would get 
pretty dirty inside when parked for awhile.  Then the first move would produce 
black rain out of the stack.  I can vouch for this - at age 9 or 10 in 1941 or 
so, I biked down to a spur somewhere in Quincy to watch a switcher.  I was 
watching from the fireman’s side, and the loco was not moving.  Then it did 
move.  When I happened to look down to start out on my bike, I was very 
surprised to see my shirt and pants speckled all over with black spots.  I 
don’t remember what my Mom said when I got home, but I figured that fireman 
somehow gave a watching kid a “dose” of black rain for a joke.  Now, after 75 
years of thinking about that experience every now and then, I find out the 
truth.  He was innocent.  

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Posted by: Richard Wolter <rawolter@verizon.net>
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