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Just as I thought Mike. RE: carlengths...Used to be you figured about a "rail length" plus a lttle for a C/L...in days of mostly 40 ft cars. Now I guess everything almost is well above that number.
Pete
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From: mdeckergwtcnet <mdecker@gwtc.net> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sat, Jan 5, 2013 12:20 pm Subject: [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz --- 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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