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Re: [BRHSlist] Fw: [n_scale] Dispatcher Phone recordings

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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Fw: [n_scale] Dispatcher Phone recordings
From: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 21:08:42 -0700 (PDT)
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Bob
No kidding now, they had a dog who "fetched" the hoops
back! The "high speed hoops" came along after your
time on the Beardstown Division.
John
--- Bob Weber <eng95@comcast.net> wrote:
> My only experience is on the CB&Q Beardstown
> division which only used hand held forks. The only
> 'stand' I remember seeing was at Shattuc, Il. The
> interlock tower there was run by the B&O and the
> depot was CB&Q. If I remember right the B&O operator
> put his orders on a 6 foot long bamboo stick that
> had one end curled into a closed hoop, about 1 foot
> in diameter. The hoops would be stuck into a flag
> holder on the side of the tower and the trainman
> would run his arm through the hoop. If this is true,
> how were the hoop recovered?
> 
> Why is it that anytime a trainman missed picking a
> train order that I was handing up, it was always my
> fault? Was it because I was only 19 and the trainman
> was in his 40's or 50's and therefore more
> experienced and couldn't make a mistake :) ??
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: John D. Mitchell, Jr. 
> To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 9:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Fw: [n_scale] Dispatcher
> Phone recordings
> 
> 
> 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
> ...[snip]...
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
> 
> 


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