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Isn't it interesting how the old railroad writers avoided the use of the personal pronouns, by just eliminating them as the subject of a sentence. That practice seemed to be pretty much universal over the entire railroad industry...Phil Weibler and I may (when we get our Round Tuits) do an article on the idiosyncracies of old railroad correspondence.
Also it always seemed necessary to add the phrase..."For your information" as though the recipient wouldn't get the information from the letter if he didn't know that he was getting information
Pete
-----Original Message----- From: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com> To: CB&Q Group <cbq@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tue, Jan 22, 2013 4:17 pm Subject: [CBQ] T-2 Pusher on Crawford Hill Here's a fascinating one, unsigned, but dated Oct. 23, 1952. It was sent as the 200 series GP7s were entering freight and passenger serivce across the system and as the last of the T-2 Mallets were being retired:
"Alliance says Supt. there now intends to use 4106 on Crawford Hill, so will send tank car of oil to Crawford. "Will take Geeps [the sender actually said jeeps] off #71 and #72, and use oil burners O-4, or O-3 if needed. "Will use Geeps west of Alliance (have four Geeps available besides the two in passenger service -- 200, 203, 223, 238 and 239). "Can get by this way without using any coal burners west of Alliance." A follow-up letter the next day from C.E. Melker at Havelock to his boss, general superintendent of motive power H.H. Urbach in Chicago: "For your information, it was necessary to take engine 4106 out of white lead at Edgemont yesterday and will be placed in service as helper engine on Crawford Hill, account heavy business Alliance Division. "Also engine 4108 was removed from serviceable list, account now due for lagging and engine is set aside unserviceable." All for today. Hol __._,_.___
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