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Sounds as if he might have been a real "clinker."
From: Jonathan Harris <jonathanharris@earthlink.net> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 7:51 PM Subject: [CBQ] Re: C&S Trains #29 and #30 Wonder whether poor Stone got his chops up, or the company gave him the sack. --- In mailto:CBQ%40yahoogroups.com, Robert munshower <bearmtnbob@...> wrote: > >April 6, 1917 > Â ... > RC Raines: Will you investigate + advise the cause for the two firemen not being at where they could be found to work Engine #325? We had to use Stone (new fireman) who could not do the work. Put Green on the engine at mp. 15 as #29 is being badly delayed. > Â > April 7, 1917 Chugwater - #29 Delayed at Cheyenne waiting on UP connection, 12 minutes + additional 10 minutes loading US mails. Departed 10:37 p.m. Delayed 10 minutes for meet with #32, 30 minutes running time lost due to low steam on eng. #325/641 cause of new fireman D. Stone. Engine journal running hot into Iron Mountain. #29 has pullman MARQUISE (set out at Billings) OBERLIN (set out at Casper) ALGARDI (set out at Billings). CB&Q diner #123, C&S coach #548, C&S chair car #503, C&S baggage # 214, CB&Q mail 1920, Brakeman - Knox, Flagman - Ball, Porter D.H. Williams. Additional 10 mins lost at Cheyenne for connection, five minutes load/unload mail (mail delays were often caused by having to respot the train). > Â > __._,_.___
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