[CBQ] Re: Newberry Archives/Train orders

["POOTUS2010" <bearmtnbob@yahoo.com>]

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, qutlx1@... wrote:
>
> On engines train orders were folded and placed behind the air  lines for 
> the window wipers overhead of the engineers seat. After the orders  were read 
> they were kept there for quick reference and usually left. Often  several 
> days or trips worth would accumulate before the roundhouse helper  cleaned 
> them out. The vast majority of my Q train order collection was gathered  from 
> those spots at Eola roundhouse.
>  
> On assigned waycars train orders were kept on a nail driven  into the wall 
> at the Condrs desk. The stack could get quite thick before being  used to 
> light the stove. There's a photo showing this in the new Q w/c  book.
> We were still using train orders to light stoves in the 70's.  When there 
> were no train orders available toilet paper worked well. 
>  
> Leo Phillipp
>
RE: Train orders. A fusee and and a thick wad of train orders were a great help 
in getting recalcitrant steam boilers to fire off on AMTRAK units coming into 
Denver with dead boilers in the winter, best regards, Bob Munshower



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