[CBQ] Fwd: [BRHSlist] Questions about 2014 Calendar images

[Leo <qutlx1@aol.com>]

Tim,

Working a smoking car was brutal for a non smoker. Probably heaven for a smoker 
as he didn't have to buy tobacco to get his nicotine. On the dinkies 
brkmn/collector jobs were specifically listed as middle and rear. If you didn't 
want to work a smoker you bid the middle collector of a job.

One of my cousins husbands has told me he almost quit his job at Continental 
Bank in Chicago because he couldn't take the smoke the first few days he 
commuted until his boss explained to him to sit in the middle of train. 

I used to hate working a smoker as my uniform would smell for days. After a 
couple years I had enough sets that I could rotate them and let them air out. I 
started segregating them so I had smoker sets when called for the rear or 
Condrs spot on dinkies.

Sometime in the future there will be a full article on mail,baggage and express 
service on the dinkies that really has been forgotten over the decades. It was 
far more than newspapers.Its written just waiting for a publication slot.

Leo Phillipp
Sent from my iPad

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Tim Long <dulcimert@gmail.com>
> Date: March 2, 2014 at 3:51:40 PM CST
> To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Questions about 2014 Calendar images
> Reply-To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
> 
> Leo,
> 
> Thanks! Great stuff. I'll look through the website and await your articles.
> 
> I bet everyone was happy when the smokers went away for good. I remember many 
> times accompanying my step-father to his office on Adams and riding with him 
> in the smoky, hazy, stinky smokers. :-)
> 
> Tim
>