As I go through old Q and C&S records at the Colorado Railroad Museum each week, I try to copy and scan examples of the wide variety of company forms I run across, then forward them to Rupert for his growing compendium of these forms. Attached is one I came across today that is without doubt the most unusual I've yet encountered. It has no form number, which in itself is odd, and it's titled "Report of Observation of Engineers' Whistling Performance." Inspectors apparently were sent out -- in this case a C&S assistant special agent -- to sit at crossings and monitor the whistle signals for the crossing. This particular inspector sat at a remote crossing south of Walsenburg, Colo., for eight hours on a June afternoon and evening in 1942 and monitored the performance of six passing trains, five of them powered by steam. The sixth, the Texas Zephyr, was powered on this day by Q E5 9912, meaning that either C&S 9950 or FW&D 9980 was back at West Burlington for repairs or shopping. Anyone out there ever heard of this practice of checking up on engineers' whistle work?
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