qutlx1@a... wrote:
> Well, this past week at the "tank" has been a bit crazier than usual. One
> very large customer asked about our experience w/bullet damage to tank shells
> as he had talked to another very, very large customer shipping the same
> product who had a bullet hole in a tank! I could only advise that in the last
> 2 years we've had 2 cases; one blasted a hole through the 7/16" plate and the
> other dented it bad enough to require replacement.
> Now of course those of you who are regulars know there's a story coming: One
> day when setting out at Eola and shoving into the East End of the East Yard;
> I and the box I was hanging on the side of were peppered w/buckshot from a
> duck hunter over at the slough behind the propane company off Eola road.
> Then again maybe it wasn't a duck hunter but just a crackpot. Leo
>
Leo
Even in the dispatchers office we have delt with flying bullets. At House 9 one
time there was a gun battle in the alley just across 26th St.
Another time while working the Main Line(Aurora to Galesburg)I had signal
trouble
out around Bristol.. The maintaniers worked for a couple days and could not find
the trouble. Finally one maintainer working along the signal line by running his
hand along the entire cable(the large multistrand heavy black cable) he found
where a .22 slug had entered the cable and was shorting out the lines when the
wind blew.
Another time in the late 70's BN had a freight come into Creston Iowa. Both
brakemen had ridden the head end account a pickup had been made in Omaha.
Leaving only the Conductor on the rear. Nothing was thought of when
communication with the rear end had went out as the radios were not the best at
the time. On arrival in Creston the conductor was found shot dead. He had been
in the coupola and been shot somewhere between Omaha and Creston.
Leo Are you sure the guy wasn't mad at you blocking the Eola Road Crossing???
SJH
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