I used to like to listen to the fireman pass signals to the engineer. The good ones could drew out "easy" into about a five syllable word and no fireman ever yelled "stop" at an engineer! It was always "come on back", too.
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From: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com <Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, January 5, 2013, 11:09 AM
I've always liked "THAT'LL DO". In the December issue of TRAINS there was a story entitled ADVENTURES IN CREW CALLING'...after a conductor fell on his face and was able to get on his waycar his rear brakeman got on the radio and said..."THAT WILL BE ALL TRAIN 380". Seems that different railroads had different versions of "THAT'LL DO. I coveredd this matter in a recent issue of our Lincoln Railfan's Club Newsletter where I write a piece called.."BACK IN THE DAYS"...I noted that a railroader never said STOP. It was always THAT'LL DO, or apparently some version of that language. I wonder what they have to say now to avoid penalty for improper language.
Pete
-----Original Message----- From: John D. Mitchell, Jr. <cbqrr47@yahoo.com> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Fri, Jan 4, 2013 10:42 pm Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz
I used to do that to my wife. I would tell her I was giving her an "easy". She never did get it when I said,"That'll do". My son is a farmer and I taught him the signals when I was helping him on the ground and he was on the tractor.
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From: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com <Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, January 4, 2013, 9:08 PM
John
Ain't we glad we had all that fun back in the day...Comes in handy now and then.
On a few occasions I would be "helping" my wife to park the car or move it...I would be giving "hand signs"....Llike.."come to me" or "go away from me"....Leo and us other trainmen know what those look like...She never figured it out and it caused me more trouble than it was worth.
Pete
-----Original Message----- From: John D. Mitchell, Jr. < cbqrr47@yahoo.com> To: CBQ < CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Fri, Jan 4, 2013 8:03 pm Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz
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I was in a train order office in the 70's and a very young operator couldn't keep up. I told him to say BK. The DS said "You're too young to know that. Who told you to say that?"
He said, "Mitchell". And the DS said,"I might have known!" The DS had known me, from his telegrapher days.
From: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com <Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, January 4, 2013, 6:52 PM
John...I know I'm disqualified....but I had to jump in on this one...BK is "Break"....used primarily by telegraphers when the sender...usually the DS.... was sending too fast for the OP to copy.... They would break the circut and then send BK. The old timers would continue to use BK when taking TO's on the phone..They would just yell BK into the phone. The old guys continued to use the telegraph abbreviations and station call signs even when the telephones came in.
There was a young "then" operator on the Lincoln Division back in the 1950's.....his name was Archer...He could barely telegraph,.....It was said that the only thing Arch could send was...FN.
Add FN to your abbreviation list.
Pete
-----Original Message----- From: John D. Mitchell, Jr. < cbqrr47@yahoo.com> To: CBQ < CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Fri, Jan 4, 2013 9:20 am Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz
The ones in error are marked in red.
--- On Fri, 1/4/13, kurthayek <kurthayek@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: kurthayek <kurthayek@yahoo.com>
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, January 4, 2013, 1:02 AM
Abbreviation quiz:
I did not see this until several others had already posted answers but I'll pretend I didn't see those. Here's what I remember without looking in any reference material:
a/c—account
A1
AFE—Authority For Expenditure (prepared many of these on the CNW)
B/A—Billed At (location)
BK—Brakeman (a guess)
BO—Bad Order (easy; anyone that didn't know this one?)
Bsk
Bx—Box (car)
C&E—Conductor & Engineer
jct—junction
Jt—Joint
K
Ld—Load (-ed car)
LFVC—Loaded Full Visible Capacity
MT—Empty (car)
NOIBN
Ntfy—Notify
O
OS—On Station or On Sheet (time by a location)
P.H.P.—Packing House Products (meat, etc.)
RIP—Repair In Place (according to magazine articles; I'm dubious)
Rpt—Repeat
Sk—Stock (car)
W&F
W/C—Waycar
WB—Waybill
WW&IB-Western Weighing & Inspection Bureau
This was fun!
No, I was not an agent or clerk on the railroad; engineering dept. on Up and CNW, then TYE on CNW, BN, and BNSF.
Kurt Hayek
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