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From: "Kenneth Fleming kf5632@gmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 17:30:09 -0500
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Interesting story about the 1881brakeman on the Q.  My grandfather was a brakeman on the Q about that time.  My father hired out on the Q in 1914 and was alao a brakeman (later conductor).  My brother hired out on the Q in 1941 and returned after the war and was also a brakeman.  In 1959, I went down to hire out and was offered a Tri-City switchman's job.  My father talked me out of it, so I joined the US Navy and spent 22 years there, but did spent the last 3 years of my Navy career as a brakeman on the Mount Rainier Scenic RR. on weekends.

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 4:22 PM, 'Rupert & Maureen' gamlenz@ihug.co.nz [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

Bud

Found this piece yesterday and I’m sure that at least some was still true in the 70’s – a tribute to CB&Q brakemen from 1881


And here it is not out of place to say a word about the brakeman. Bad as his language often is, and rough as is his life, this man, like all others who manfully brave danger, is not without self-respect. He is often more of a man than individuals of softer speech and clothing. Moreover, I have personal reason to believe that all the rank and file of men on our roads have a loyalty in them true and hearty and worth holding. Again and again have I been touched by their simple politeness, their kindness and respectful willingness to do you a favor, without any thought of gain or of return.

Moreover, those who think these men do not care for appearances should watch them as they prepare for their dinner at their boarding-houses Whatever else there may not be in the brakeman, there is manliness in him.

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

 

 


From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: 11 January 2015 08:44
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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Gas Electric Photo ID Help

 

I have a personal knowledge about this car ….. sometime in the late 1970's.  

Bud Linroth ex-Canton Road switcher brakeman.

 




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