Man, I like this thread! I had forgotten about "slow
orders by the bunch". We used to call the stationary
train order forks, "high speed hoops". It used to be
that the headend would miss the hoop and the conductor
would pull the air if the engineer didn't do it first.
This was usually followed by remarks about the
offender's family.
John
--- Mike Decker <mdecker@gwtc.net> wrote:
> Hi Folks:
>
> In Gillette and Edgemont, it was always "Copy a
> bunch", usually #19 slow
> orders. The OP would roll as many into the
> typewriter as it would hold, and
> when they were done, he (or she) would punch a hole
> in the top corner. Then
> they'd hang the different orders on nails driven
> into the edge of the shelf
> above the OP's table. When the DS would clear a
> train, the OP would just
> pull off the orders that were named on the
> Clearance. They didn't "hoop 'em
> up" at those stations, but they did out on line.
> Most of the Train Order
> stations between Edgemont and Gillette had the metal
> stands for the short
> "Forks", the head end copy would go in the top one,
> and the rear end in the
> lower. I've had to stop more than once because
> somebody missed the
> "hoop"...usually at a station where the OP was
> hooping them up by hand.
>
> We used to save the order strings for all kinds of
> little jobs around the
> motor....holding down the MU sander lever comes
> immediately to mind :>) One
> of the funniest things I saw with order strings was
> the day my Engineer had
> his (pretty large, back then) transister radio
> strung between the front
> wiper valve and the Company radio....one of those on
> the pipe above the
> Control Stand...with the antenna sticking out
> through a crack between the
> side windows. We hit a rough spot, and the string
> on the Co. radio broke,
> the "entertainment center" hit him alongside the
> head and smacked him into
> the side window. I thought it had cold c**ked him,
> but he just shook his
> head and strung it back up :>)
>
> We used to carry three "bulldog" magnetic
> clips...one for your slow orders,
> one for your meets, and one for your superseeded
> meets. And...there's still
> the occasional "BK" on the Dispatcher's radio :>)
> The OP back home on the
> Milwaukee used to use the "wire" to talk to the
> other stations. He'd be
> sitting there talking to you and the Morse would be
> clicking away, and he'd
> reach over to his "bug" and send something. Then
> he'd tell you what was
> happening.
>
> Mike Decker
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 9:11 AM
> > From: "John D. Mitchell, Jr."
> <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Re: Fw: [n_scale] Dispatcher Phone
> recordings
> >
> > 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
>
>
>
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