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Only John and I remember the old radio JINGLE..."UPON MY SOUL...THAT GREEN MARKED COAL...BEATS ANY COAL I'VE SEEN"....Sung, IIRC to the tune of..."THE WEARIN' OF THE GREEN"...an Irish ballad.
Isn't it remarkable how "one thing leads to another"....I once said to my wife..."That reminds me of something"...Her response.."EVERYTHING REMINDS YOU OF SOMETHING"....I often say..."My mind is full of useless trivia"...Lots of it comes out here.
Pete
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From: John <cbqrr47@yahoo.com> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sat, Jan 5, 2013 12:50 am Subject: [CBQ] Here are the answers Abbreviation quiz
Here are the answers. Some of these may have more than one meaning (a/c and WB come to mind), depending on the context in which they are used, so I picked only one, you may say the more obscure. a/c= account A1= first class (freight rate when using "class" rates instead of "commodity" rates) AFE= authority for expenditure B/A= billed at BK= break (used by telegraphers to tell the senders to stop transmitting) BO= bad order Bsk= basket Bx= box C&E= conductor and engineer COTS= cleaned, oiled, tested and stenciled (I threw this one in after someone mentioned it) Jct= junction Jt= joint K= standard clock K.D.= knocked down (and K.D.F. was knocked down flat) Ld= load LFVC= loaded to full visible capacity ( this is an outgrowth of a rule by the Office of Defense Transportation during WWII, that open top cars be "loaded to full visible capacity" and the rule stayed in effect for many years after the war) MT= empty NES= not elsewhere specified NOIBN= not otherwise indexed by name Ntfy= notify O= track scale (interesting since there is not one "O" in "track scale") OS= on sheet OS&D= over, short and damaged P.H.P. packing house products RIP= repair in place Rpt= report Sk= sack S.U.= set up W&F= water and feed(way bill direction as to location to feed and water livestock) W/C= way car WB= waybill (and its brother BL= bill of lading) WW&IB= Western Weighing and Inspection Bureau There is one that only Southern Illinois coal field railroaders used. GMOT = green marked oil treated. It was used on waybills from the Old Ben Coal Corporation mines. __._,_.___
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