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Jim
You were fortunate to be under the "tutelage" of a wise old head....There weren't many of that kind left by 1970...but there were a few.
Your comments reflect the fact that I purposely wrote that the brakeman I described got on the FRONT END of the waycar...(a BIG NO NO as you pointed out)....also you commented that the grab irons were shaped to a certain configuration...The ones at the rear were shaped in a curve rather than just straight up and down...allowing you to just slide your arm up as you swung on rather that just grabbing a verticle grab iron and getting "jerked"on.
Pete
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From: james <jamessandrin@yahoo.com> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Fri, Jul 19, 2013 8:42 am Subject: [CBQ] Re: (unknown) When I was still doing my student trips for the UP out of Denver in June 1970, I got on the front end of caboose on a local turn as we departed for Denver. The conductor made certain I never even considered such a move again, regardless of train speed. He pointed out the reason caboose grab irons were shaped as they are and that I was expected to use them as they were intended. He said I could be pardoned for all sorts of mistakes, but getting run over by my own train was not one of them!
Jim Sandrin --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Jpslhedgpeth@... wrote: > > > I saw a "classic" case one afternoon at Langdon, MO...Some train...probably the north local had completed it's work at Langdon and the rear brakeman was standing on the platform having a "chin fest" with the operator....They didn't have many cars and the acceleration was rapid. > > As the waycar approached I thought...that guy will never be able to get on...He did something I never saw another brakeman do...Instead of catching the curved grab iron at the rear of the waycar....He just started running as fast as he could before the waycar got to him...When the front platform caught up with him he just turned and JUMPED ON...never touched the grabirons....during my trainman days I never saw anybody do it that way again and I certainly didn't ever try it. > > Pete > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Noel Crawford <georgecrawfordsr@...> > To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Thu, Jul 18, 2013 10:11 pm > Subject: [CBQ] (unknown) > > > > > > On 7/18/2013 11:00 PM, Jpslhedgpeth@... wrote: > > .It was also a source of pride for some of the old engineers to leave town "at speed"...in an attempt to leave the rear end boys behind. > > witnessed that event more than once while growing up on the Q in York NB. > __._,_.___
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