Re: [CBQ] Wyoming photos

["John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>]

I remember some old operators telling me that they had a dog who would retieve the hoops. I have a "rearend" hoop i.e. short handled ,from Sesser that I got in the 70's. Of course, it hadn't been used in years and the young second trick operator didn't know what it was.

 

And Pete you always had a small percentage of guys who didn't "get with the program" and made it hard on everyone else. Word got around and you knew who they were. But some things were everybodies' business, like spotting broken rails.

From: "Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com" <Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2012 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Wyoming photos

 

Archie..I guess I'll have to have another look..I missed that item...It made me think about how ingenious and...generally helpful to each other those old guys were...It really was pretty much a family thing and everybody looked out after the other guy...sometimes even a bit too much when it came to the matter of Rule G.

 

Something in that same vein just came to me.   I worked the Lincoln-Wymore local several weeks each summer that I worked 56-58.   At DeWitt where the "High Line" took of from the Crete Wymore line we always had 15-20 mty grain boxes to set out on the siding south of the depot.  The Wymore-Fairmont local would pick these mtys up at DeWitt to peddle to elevators going west.

 

I remember the first time I worked the job the Conductor said.  When you cut off from that setout be sure to turn the angle cock so "them other guys" won't have to walk all the way back down there.  I always remembered to do that and it saved another brakeman a considerable walk.....Kind fits in with the train order hoop arrangement   I never thought about that...Maybe since those kind of hoops had gone out of style before I cam along...I never had the "privilege" of picking up orders with the old style hoop that had to be returned.  I heard that they packed a pretty good "wallop" when they were grabbed at speed.

 

Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: archie hayden <klinerarch@charter.net>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, Aug 7, 2012 6:25 pm
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Wyoming photos

 

Pete,  Another thing I noticed were empty train order hoops hanging over the hand brake wheel on the rear of the waycar.  They would probably drop an empty hoop at the feet of the operator when they caught the order hoop he was holding for them.  This way he didn't have to walk down the track  who knows how far to retrieve the hoop he had just handed up.

On Aug 7, 2012, at 5:48 PM, archie hayden wrote:

 

Pete, the photo I was refering to was not the men playing cribbage but the 3 coyboys resting in the waycar.  Put the word railroads in search box and you get 2 full pages of Wyoming shots.

On Aug 7, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com wrote:

 

Archie  et al

 

Whenever I see one of these old time photos showing railroaders I always spend time looking at all the details of the photo especially trying to decide which guy is the conductor, brakeman engr, fireman etc. 

 

Sometimes the most interesting thing in the photos is not the main subject but the details especially as it pertains to the railroad atmosphere of the time

 

Pete

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