Pete
It was "copy 3", one for the headend, one for the hind
end, and one for the file. Maybe, for a time the CD
would done this (ordered more copies for the
brakeman), I just don't know, but the rules called for
three, with the exception that it was four for PMC's,
with a baggageman.
John
--- PSHedgpeth@aol.com wrote:
> Bob, John and list
>
> RE: number of copies....I wonder if the number of
> copies handed up varied
> from division to Division on theQ...I don't see how
> it would, but I distinctly
> remember that on the St. Joe Division (where I
> watched) and the Lincoln-Wymore
> Division (where I was a brakeman) that you only got
> one copy on the head end
> and one on the rear end...
>
> I think we disccussed this some time back and at
> least one other Ex Q person
> confirmed it.
>
> On the Rock Island we had two copies on the head end
> and two on the RE which
> was good.
>
> I was involved in a near mishap on the Q in 57 where
> we had a situation where
> a meet was changed a couple of times by annulments
> and a superceding order..I
> lost track of whether we were to head in or not
> under the final order....The
> old head engineer had "bit my a..." so many times
> on the trip that I hadn't
> the nerve to ask him to see the orders again...
>
> Fortunately we didn't hit, but the Road Foreman was
> on the other train...(OWW
> III if you're reading this, it was your dad) and
> consequently there was an
> investigation....The engineer got restricted to
> branch line service...which was
> a good thing for both him and the company. I got
> nothing (probably because I
> was "new"...Don't know what happened to the
> fireman..who, of course, was "back
> in the engine room" when the critical moment came..
>
> Comments old trainmen and ops........
>
> Pete
>
>
>
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> removed]
>
>
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