Leo..you'll also find that quote...with proper approbation in my book
"Terminal Tales"...I don't recall the issue month and year of the story in RR,
but it's title was "TRAVELING OP"
Pete
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From: Leo qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wed, May 21, 2014 11:12 am
Subject: Fwd: [CBQ] Re: Student Trips
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
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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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