Okay Drale.
I am burning my brand new UP jacket <g>.
sjl -- A Q fan until I die.
drale99@a... wrote:
> No no! Sorry about the politics. Just telling how I was brought up. Never
> would I suggest a Q guy should turn UP. The big thing was the trucks. Back
> in those days, truckers were only a threat to the railroads. (compared with
> today, when they virtually own the transpotation business.) You could still
> fight them, and railroaders did. I remember my dad rushing out of the depot,
> running down the track, shouting and gesturing frantically at a trucker that
> was trespassing on RR property. He chased the culprit away and told him not
> to come back! This was serious business!! In those days railroads did most
> of the shipping, even to small town shippers. Truckers were beginning to
> muscle their way into this part of the business. Sorry to be getting so far
> off the subject, but couldn't avoid the comments about some of the old things
> almost long forgotten.
>
> DRale Reeves
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