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Arch and group We called Howard "Blue eyes" sorry don't know the story behind the nickname. Frankie Carr was in the 101st airborne at Bastone. he sure had a lot of stories about that battle. He carried a short stub pencil about 2 inches long and wrote everything down. Thanks Arch, you brought back some memories. From: "archie hayden klinerarch@charter.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 12:19 PM Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Gas Electric Photo ID Help Bud and group, Before the job was known as the Canton road switcher,
I worked two of the 3 jobs that were headquartered out of Lewiston, Illinois. Working with Howard Johnson and Frankie Carr was a hoot. These guys put in 16 hour days showing off at 15 hours and 59 minutes so they could start the next shift at regular time. Twice a day we would haul 40 empty battleships up to the mines and shove 20 cars at a time into a stub track that held 20 cars all with no radios. Learned to hang off the point stirrup and grab the anglecock to set the air at the end of the track. Slept in the freight room of the depot and lived on day old bread and cookies from care packages sent from home in Hannibal. As I recall we did have a lot of switching around Canton with IH requiring the most. Archie __._,_.___ Posted by: ralph linroth <wcman8@yahoo.com> __,_._,___ |