Pete what a great quote from Railroad Magazine. So true.
Interesting that you mention fun. Once in a blue moon I bump into somebody I
worked with on the RR who is still there. After telling me how many more months
and days they have to go the next comment is "Leo remember how it used to be
fun? It isn't any more".
I'll agree its a whole lot safer but not so sure about being more efficient. I
deal w/rr cars and service every day in my job. Unit trains and intermodal seem
to be operating well,it's the old fashion loose car rring that has issues.
Leo
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> From: "Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: May 21, 2014 at 10:48:20 AM CDT
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Student Trips
> Reply-To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
>
> OK Bill That's "all well and good"...but just think of all the stories
> these new guys won't have to tell..They won't have any"characters" to
> describe...It'll be "just a job"
>
>
> I always, in instances like this quote a message from an old RAILROAD
> MAGAZINE article..."What we endure with hardship we remember with delight"...
>
> Made my first student trips in 1956...At that time there were men around who
> had seniority back to the "teens"..Lots of good stories...some of them might
> have even been true.
>
> My experience was that in most cases...once the old guys found out that you
> weren't a complete screw up...and that you were trying to do your best work
> and best of all when they found out that you knew something about
> railroading...which I did having grown up on the RPL&N RR...they would accept
> you with a minimum of criticism.
>
> I for one consider myself fortunate to have worked at the tail end of the age
> when railroading was what it had always been and that most of the old
> traditions and "ways" were still very much in effect.
>
> I'm sure that railroading is much safer now and certainly more
> efficient...but I'm sure that it ain't as much fun as some of us old coots
> remember.
>
> Pete
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