Leo
The joys of modern technology. Never had that trouble with the Mark I
mudhop
sjh
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From: <qutlx1@a...>
To: <brhslist@Y...>
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 7:48 PM
Subject: [BRHSlist] Wacky Car
> The discussion of no bills brought to mind a recent fiasco. While it"s not
Q
> story I think you'll find this enlightening.
> Recently a unnamed and unspecified UTLX shop received a UTC car and an
Amoco
> owned car about the same time and both were estimated and approved for
> repaint.
> So both cars ended up in the paint shop of this location and its state of
the
> art facility which is only 2 years old. But there still is the human
factor.
> Today cars are tracked and reported by the AEI tags attached to them(if
> anybody needs further details say so).So these 2 cars go thru blast and
paint
> and come out the other end painted and stencilled correctly(not as easy as
> one thinks).
> About 2 months later we get a call from a lessee saying UTLX xxxxxx keeps
> getting goofy trace reports like its in 2 places at once hundreds of miles
> apart?
> So my staff traces UTLX xxxxxx and after I notice that it and the BP/Amoco
> car go thru the paint line the same day, we wonder? Gee their both in
> different places on different rrs on different dates??????????
> I sit and stare out the window at the Chgo skyline for a few minutes and
> Bingo it hits me!
> The shop crossed the AEI tags when they put them back on the cars. My AAR
> coordinator calls the U.P. and they lasso the BP car at Noth Platte,Ne and
> take the portable AEI tag reader out to the car and sure enough it says
UTLX
> xxxxxx on one side and AMOX YYYYY on the other!?
> Leo
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