Reading about AEI tag errors reminds me that at EMD, we managed to put
the wrong tags on some locomotives and, like the tank car, different
tags on each side of individual locomotives. This includes both the
original large plate AEI tags of the 70s and the more recent small
blocks currently used. Usually, the first trip through a reader caught
the error. Of course, we even managed to misnumber locomotives
(transpositions, etc.) in the painting process, including an entire
order for the Boston & Maine. We also once applied the slanted SOO LINE
logo on a unit slanting the wrong way. Errors occur in any production
process. You just try to minimize them and hope that they are not too
serious.
Bill Barber
On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 08:01 AM, BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
wrote:
Message: 6
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:21:04 EST
From: PSHedgpeth@a...
Subject: Re: No Bills
Leo and list
You mentioned the matter of wrong AAR ID tags being put on a tank
car....and
said car showing up in more than one place at the same time...
In a few days I'll put on a "classic" tale in this connection...one
which
probably every repair track has...One which I have no personal
knowledge of,
but was told to me by an old car foreman...and there is no reason that
it
couldn't be true.
Pete You have permission to remind me in a few days...after the
jumbo book
matter settles down.
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