[CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz

["mdeckergwtcnet" <mdecker@gwtc.net>]

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "John D. Mitchell, Jr."  wrote:
>
> 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.
> 

That'll do doesn't cut it anymore :>)  They did go back to letting the ground 
man say "half a car" instead of "25 feet", but it has to be "Stop" now, if you 
don't want to risk an "efficiency Failure" :>)  

You also can't use "cuttin' in the air" anymore....it's got to be "going in 
between".  And, if the going in between was on the radio, you have to answer 
with "set and centered".  If he gives you what I call the "Saturday Night 
Fever" sign.......one hand up in the air, and one pointing "in between"....you 
can answer with a toot on the horn.  Lots of the "older" guys in Edgemont 
prefer hand signs up in the Velocity yard, account the TM in charge can't 
evesdrop on them :>)

Mike



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