Was there a speed restriction when picking up Form 19 train orders? How
fast could a train be going and still reliably pick them up without maiming
somebody?
Nelson Moyer
-----Original Message-----
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Rupert & Maureen
Sent: Thursday, April
18, 2013 4:05 AM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [CBQ] Train order
delivery (was 2-10-4)
Bob
How often were train orders dropped when you were handing them up with the
train on the move?
Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bob Weber
Sent: Friday, 12
April 2013 1:54 p.m.
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CBQ] 2-10-4
You
haven't lived until you've had the chance to stand in the cinder ballast, out
next to the track at 11 PM to hand
up train orders to the brakeman on that beast. A hundred cars later you
get to repeat it for the brakeman in the waycar. I had to do
that often in the early 1950's at Concord,
Illinois.
Bob Weber