[CBQ] Trivia

[HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>]

Thought I'd post a few more items of trivial interest that I ran across in my sorting of old records at the Colorado Railroad Museum library.
 
Here is a bulletin issued to "All Enginemen" on May 26, 1944, at Casper, Wyo., by Wm. Schwartz, Casper Master Mechanic:
 
          Please be referred to various previous notices in regard to birds nests in water spouts.
          We are again experiencing trouble with birds nests getting into water tanks [of locomotive tenders].  Existing instructions are that enginemen, during the Spring and Summer months, in taking water, should flush out the spout before dropping into tank.  In this way any birds nests which might happer to be in the spout will be washed out on the ground.
          Enginemen will please see these instructions are followed.
 
More to come.
 
Hol

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