Here I thought using the mailines for "sidings" while an opening was created in
the yard was something invented in more modern times, mostly by that "other"
railroad that has a mailing address in Nebraska...
Ed Pavlovic
qutlx1@a... wrote:
> Also the other unexpected problem was if the
> "holding pattern" suddenly reared its ugly head after you stepped off.
> I know of one young brkmn who bailed at Aurora,drove directly to Clyde and
> discovered; by as casually as possible asking Smitty (d yard ydmstr) where
> such and such a train was that his "brothers" were stuck at Downers in the
> holding pattern!
> Leo
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