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While having little or no interest in the stock car matter, per se, I'm always interested in noting the now archaic, but then common railroad teminology
Example:...PLEASE. do such and such....REFERRING TO YOURS OF 1234 INST. KINDLY do thus and so...ACKNOWLEDGE RECEIPT.
Some day when my round tuit arrives I'm going to do a dissertation on RAILROAD CORRESPONDENCE....
When the latest and last "management" came to the Rock Island there was a, shall we say, threat, to get rid of this old language..It seemed that it was almost worth your job if you didn't. Seems like incorrect terminolgy was responsible for most of, if not all of, Rock Island past failures.
Examples..You were not to use your initials for your first name...Talk about a heresy!!!!! You were not to begin a sentence with the letter I...Your corespondence was to be "You centered"...One of my old bosses, trying to comply with this directive would write..."AM going to do thus and so"...Thus complying with the letter of, but not the "spirit of" the directive.
Al Holck and I had a conversation some years ago regarding the matter of...."PROTECTING a job"...ie...Mr. so and so PROTECT third trick at Langdon effective....date.
If anyone would like to participate in gathering such terms I'd be glad to receive your input off list.
Pete
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