BRHSLIST
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [CBQ] Re: Weed Spray equipment

To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Weed Spray equipment
From: "Bill Hirt whirt@fastmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 16:55:39 -0600
Authentication-results: mta1004.groups.mail.bf1.yahoo.com from=fastmail.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig); from=messagingengine.com; dkim=pass (ok)
Delivered-to: unknown
Delivered-to: archives@nauer.org
Delivered-to: mailing list CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoogroups.com; s=echoe; t=1485558088; bh=RuTAKttg+QSYK07+3ogKdIrOSvAw6PMDqXD+6+IU9OY=; h=To:References:In-Reply-To:From:List-Id:List-Unsubscribe:Date:Subject:Reply-To:From:Subject; b=wJ8MpWF40aerrM+qH/Ab+rH1zZOYUbr+DgvAbkybHNHWQ968JF2bBVagTC+oizlqvAJ4mYlHwv2JJNZReTENJf2jq8fYuBLfcpa8csO4Z+mb97k5GIyjgAHN2AH9c3qRmZzne2BDoK1rMQ6n5gy+j8VLj4Gbr4VPlKg9Dfdu9go=
In-reply-to: <14abd71.7f98ddbf.45bd041d@aol.com>
List-id: <CBQ.yahoogroups.com>
List-unsubscribe: <mailto:CBQ-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com>
Mailing-list: list CBQ@yahoogroups.com; contact CBQ-owner@yahoogroups.com
References: <14abd71.7f98ddbf.45bd041d@aol.com>
Reply-to: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sender: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.0


Louis,

I have a friend and fellow model railroader (Jim McCroskie) whose first job out of the high school was working the sprayer on the weed trains. He's talked about about being in a T shirt and jeans and having all of the weed spray sometimes just cover you as you would work down the track. That happened all summer working those sprayer trains. He then became a Q clerk and retired as BN special agent. He's amazed to this day that he has not had any health problems that could be attributed to the weed spraying work.

Bill Hirt


On 1/27/2017 2:14 PM, LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ] wrote:
January 27, 2017
 
Rupert/Hol - This is what I remember, too, on Lines East. I still remember the "stink" of the chemical all these years later.... Today, the EPA would never tolerate such an operation. Think about how the chemical spray cloud could drift off the ROW if the wind picked-up. Chemical exposure to employees as described with the spray nozzle operator being "coated" would also be a huge concern in the present era. But, a weed spray train was certainly a part of everyday railroading 60 plus-years ago. Times were very different then.... Best Regards - Louis
 
Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhope, AL  




__._,_.___

Posted by: Bill Hirt <whirt@fastmail.com>



__,_._,___
<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>