To all former "Q" men who were some of the fastest engineers that were
known? Any good stories about these guys?
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From: <qutlx1@aol.com>
To: <cbq@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 8:06 AM
Subject: [CBQ] Silk Trains/Berry Special
> The thread about silk trains (of course) brought back some memories and
> stories but I need RJ,Karl,Steve,et al to carry this one furhter than I
can.
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> Many engineers I worked with when talking about "the good old days" would
> bring up the "berries specials".
> These were high priority fruit blocks of cherries and berries(short lifed
> fruit as compared to apples,potatoes,carrots,etc that had a longer transit
> tolerance). The story was uniform in that a message from the DS would be
attached to
> the train orders stating "make best possible time". And that is just what
the
> crews would do. In essence the message was authority to use their best
> judgement as to how fast they could go and stay on the rails.
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> Leo
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