Oh man , I forgot about that. You could tell when the nuns were going to send
something home with us, for our parents, because all 3 floors of the scholl
reeked of the ditto fluid.
Rob McNay
Chicago IL
--- On Thu, 1/27/11, dieselpop1 <dieselpop1@msn.com> wrote:
> From: dieselpop1 <dieselpop1@msn.com>
> Subject: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q Trip February 19, 1966 - St. Louis to Hannibal Behind
> 4960
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, January 27, 2011, 10:12 AM
> In schools those machines were
> usually in small rooms. Woe to you if you spilled some of
> the fluid while refilling the reservoir.
> W. D. Hoy
>
> --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com,
> Robert McNay <CptMatt@...> wrote:
> >
> > My first job, after high school in the mid-70s, was
> working for the accounting department at Marshall Field's on
> State St. My biggest job was running the monthly
> sales/financial reports. Eighty-five copies of 80 to 100
> pages each, 2 sided, all run off of a "ditto" machine.
> >
> > The messy liquid, the stencils that were more fragile
> than a crystal goblet, laying out the individual pages to
> dry before running the second side but being careful that
> they wouldn't wrinkle or stick together. I ruined more
> shirts......
> >
> > The Xerox corporation should be granted sainthood.
> >
> > Rob McNay
> > Chicago IL
> >
> > --- On Wed, 1/26/11, califconure
> <jonathanharris@...> wrote:
> >
> > > From: califconure <jonathanharris@...>
> > > Subject: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q Trip February 19,
> 1966 - St. Louis to Hannibal Behind 4960
> > > To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> > > Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 10:48 PM
> > > I believe what you mean is methanal
> > > (=formaldehyde). I vividly recall the sickly
> sweet smell
> > > from school (elementary school through college).
> Methanol is
> > > methyl alcohol (so-called "wood alcohol"). Both
> are nasty
> > > and toxic.
> > > jonathan
> > >
> > > --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com,
> > > "dieselpop1" <dieselpop1@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The solvent was methanol.
> > > > W. D. Hoy
> > > >
> > > > --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com,
> > > Jpslhedgpeth@ wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I'll bet nobody, or maybe just a few
> "old coots"
> > > know what Ted means when re refers to "Ditto
> Flyers....they
> > > smelled so good".
> > > > >
> > > > > The "jelly" used in the "ditto" process
> had a
> > > very unique and special odor...Kind of sweet and
> very
> > > pleasant...I can't describe it, but I would
> recognize it
> > > instantly..
> > > > >
> > > > > Right Ted
> > > > >
> > > > > Pete
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Theo <hi_jeanx@>
> > > > > To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
> > > > > Sent: Wed, Jan 26, 2011 3:43 pm
> > > > > Subject: [CBQ] CB&Q Trip February
> 19, 1966 -
> > > St. Louis to Hannibal Behind 4960
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Way back, three Wesleyan students rode
> what was
> > > billed as the Last Steam Excursion Via the
> CB&Q out of
> > > St. Louis Union Station. The date was February
> 19, 1966.
> > > Handing out ditto fliers (they smelled so good)
> and getting
> > > $.50 dues, they recruited 110 others on the trip
> to fight to
> > > save CB&Qs steam, with their ultimate effort
> what became
> > > the Monticello Railway Museum. I don't remember
> much of the
> > > rest of the trip, but the early action was
> spectacular on a
> > > nearly windless, grey day that allowed the 4960's
> plume to
> > > rise majestically perhap 400 feet, with hundreds
> of people
> > > on the top of the levee in a
> > > > > strictly-enforced photo run-by line
> getting a
> > > thousand shots and movies (there were 800 people
> on the
> > > train at least).
> > > > >
> > > > > The museum needs a slide or photo of
> that event
> > > to use in its PowerP show history being put
> together.
> > > > >
> > > > > If anyone can find something they could
> use, it
> > > will be to great thanks.
> > > > >
> > > > > Ted Lemen
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have
> been
> > > removed]
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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