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Following up on the recent thread regarding stories and nicknames...Here's one that just came to mind today..It came from a book "Life on the Head End" by P.M. Adams...a Canadian National or Pacific engineer..Published about 1956... If Adams was as good an engineer as he was a writer he is at the top of the list.
How about this one..."RIGOR MORTIS RILEY"....a brakeman You should all be able to figure out the source of his name.
or this one...TANLAC DEAVER...He got this one from his fondness for a certain "cure all" similar to HADACOL...(I hope you old guys, along with me remember HADACOL).
And another...VINEGAR JOE FINCH....he had less than a sunny dispositio.
and another...HIGHBALL WILSON...whose, Adams noted, presence in the cab constituted a nearly continual emergency.
Pete
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