Re: [CBQ] Re: Student Trips

["Leo qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

A yellow star on the Aurora division(if it wasn't worn away. 

Leo

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> On May 21, 2014, at 2:12 PM, "Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com [CBQ]" 
> <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
>   Seems like IIRC a that the switches with point locks had a yellow or maybe 
> it was white stripe on the switch stand  "back in the day"
> 
> 
> Pete
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdecker@gwtc.net [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wed, May 21, 2014 12:08 pm
> Subject: [CBQ] Re: Student Trips
> 
>  
> 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.
>