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Re: [BRHSlist] Step Off

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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Step Off
From: "Norm_Andersen" <Norm_Andersen@m...>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 12:09:31 -0400
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I totally give up with this infernal $%&@# Yahoo Groups cra-! No matter how
I try Yahoo Groups does NOT work for me even though I am a member and have
entered the correct ID and password. Can somebody give me David Lotz' email
address?

Steamin and thanks,

Norm Andersen

----- Original Message -----
From: <PSHedgpeth@a...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Step Off


> Leo
>
> Thanks re your elucidation on the step on-step off arrangement. I don't
> recall seeing the treatise a year ago, so appreciate your doing it again.
>
> What you said would exactly match the St. Joe arrangement. I don't know
for
> sure, but apparently Kansas City was the originating terminal and final
> terminal for the Lincoln, Omaha, St. Joe KC trains...20-21, 26-27, 22-23,
> 41-42,43-44. The arrangement would have worked the same way. Crews would
> step on at St. Joe and work to KC and then have a quick turn back rather
than
> deadheading from St. Joe to KC then working back, and working to KC and
> deadheading back to St. Joe the crew's home terminal.
>
> I always understood that this was an "official" arrangement, but
apparently
> it wasn't, but as you say...it was winked at as long as "nothing
happened".
>
> It kind of validates my oft expressed opinion that railroaders of
yesteryear
> were pretty much "self supervised" and not micromanaged as seems to be the
> case today.
>
> Pete
>
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