Re: [CBQ] Re: Student Trips

["Noel georgecrawfordsr@comcast.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Mike,
  Where in the heck have you been?  We miss you over on the 7/8ths lounge.
Noel
On 5/21/2014 1:08 PM, mdecker@gwtc.net [CBQ] wrote:
> I got done with Brakeman class in Alliance in June, 1977, and Bob 
> Deford, the personnel guy and Glenn Saylor, the Supt., said I should 
> go up to Edgemont.  They figured I'd get back into Engine Service 
> faster in a smaller terminal.  When I got there, Jim Dickey, the 
> Trainmaster was waiting for me.  He said: "Are you that shortline guy 
> from Wisconsin?"  "Yup"  "Ready to go to work?"  "Ya, but they said 
> we'd have to make 5 student trips first."  "Tell those guys in 
> Alliance we haven't got time for that stuff up here.  You got your 
> book, keys and lamp?"  "Ya"  You know what you're doin' don't ya?"  "I 
> guess so."  "Well then go have Alice (Haave, the wife of Dick Haave, a 
> friend off the Rock, who was firin' there at the time) mark you up."  
> I went to work at 4:05A the next day.  The only problem I had that 
> first trip was when I got down to throw the West switch at Upton to 
> let us out onto the main.  I 'bout broke my back trying to throw the 
> switch, until Marty Wolf stepped out on the nose and pointed over to 
> the far side of the track.  I'd never seen a pedal lock before, and 
> all they showed us in class was how to "hand job" one of the new dual 
> control switches at the West end of the Alliance yard.


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