Hi All,
Thanks Leo for this very informative post. Do you or someone know how they
chalked cars at Eola or Cicero yards? Did the trainmen just chalk a track
number on the cars? Anyone with Chalking information would be welcome.
Ted
At 11:00 PM 5/5/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I've been asked to expand on a comment that I made during the hand sign
>clinic at the spring meet about chalk marks. At one time they were almost
>universal in switching both on yard and wayfreight type jobs. By the time I
>started carrying a lantern Rochelle was one of the few places left where you
>still marked the cars.
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