Re: [CBQ] Palace Stock cars....old railroad terminology

[John Sloan <sloanfamily123@gmail.com>]

On a side note to the "old terminology"  It was that way in the "Old Corps"...In the early 70's we were directed to quit using bulkhead, overhead, scuttlebutt and such as well as we we no longer "required" to speak and write in the third person.  For us old salts it was a hard transition that still creeps into our speech patterns.

John   

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:34 AM, John D. Mitchell, Jr. <cbqrr47@yahoo.com> wrote:

 

Pete

To all cocerned:

As a boy, I learned that old railroad language, hanging around the depot. I still use it today and every once in awhile, I'll have someone say, "Why did say it THAT way?". I guess I drove my secretaries nuts! Also, I learned to group digits in twos. You know 2814 becomes "twenty eight fourteen", not two thousand eight hundred fourteen.
Regards,

John
--- On Fri, 12/14/12, Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com <Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com> wrote:

From: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com <Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com>
Subject: [CBQ] Palace Stock cars....old railroad terminology
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, December 14, 2012, 10:20 AM

 

  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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