Re: [CBQ] Old poem search

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

Ah,yes. A certain fireman( initials MPB) climbed aboard at Savanna east bound one fine morning. Relatively light train with 5 SD40-45s. The crew change was made on the main at a full stop . His inexperience led to a pull out in an empty flat six cars back. Luckily it was on the  west end of the car and the Savanna switch crew came out and set the car over onto the rip track.

Leo

On Aug 21, 2017, at 7:32 PM, Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Leo...this little "matter" was brought about by my seeing, on facebook..."If you worked for the railroad" page a picture of a destroyed coupler and draft gear and comments by some "ground man" as to how much better he could have handled things.  This lead...as does  "everything according to my late wife" to another memory, which was of seeing that old poem in RR magazine but I had no idea what issue contained it. Thanks to Don Brown's memory or a good "search engine" I found the piece in my magazine collection and VOILA  there you had it. 

Pete

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From: qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Mon, Aug 21, 2017 6:52 pm
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Old poem search

 

Now Pete are you trying to perpetuate the class war fare between the unions ?!

I remember one night on the C&I eastbound, which was a hill and dale line, the business car was behind the waycar eastbound. I was a crew member and someone on the business car asked the engineer(deputy dog) via the radio if he couldn't do a better job of controlling the slack.

Leo

On Aug 21, 2017, at 6:23 PM, Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

NO you'r right on time..Thanks to Don as to the proper issue and thanks to ME for having it where I could find it so....HERE 'TIS.

PUT THE HOGGER ON THE CRUMMY

Let me sit on the right hand side

A-hold of the throttle and johnson bar,

And make our rough wild hogger ride

At the other end on the old way car.

Just watch him try to stay in the hack.

When I start the train with the air and the slack

And hear him holler when his head I drove, 

Right in behind the crummy stove,

And as the train goes into the sag,

Knock him out with the slack in that drag

And let him lay there on the floor.

Afraid to stand up, for fear he'd get more.

I'd head right in on the longest track,

And cut her off a long way back;

When the hogger walks in to him I'd say

Well, how was the ride you got today.

B.H. Terry

RAILROAD MAGAZINE  DEC 1941

That's when railroad men were authors and poets as well as good  "car hands"...and it wasn't necessary to drop the F bomb every other word.

Pete

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From: Don Brown dbrown02@rochester.rr.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Mon, Aug 21, 2017 4:44 pm
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Old poem search

 

About 2 hours late to the party, are we?  :-))

On 8/21/2017 5:26 PM, John Sloan sloanfamily123@gmail.com [CBQ] wrote:

 

B H Terry - Poem - "Put the Hogger in the Crummy" Dec 1941

On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Many years ago I saw in an old issue of RAILROAD MAGAZINE. there was a poem titled  "PUT THE HOGGER IN THE WAYCAR"

This may be too broad a subject for this forum, but I'm begging forgiveness for this request.

I'm sure that I have the issue of the old RR magazine where I saw this poem, but I just can't think about going though my collection..I have several hundred..maybe a thousand issues which MIGHT  contain that poem.

Anybody on here recall and perhaps give me  hint as to where it was.  I may have put it in one of my diatribes in years past, but I thought i would start here.

Begging for help and forgiveness for straying off topic

Pete

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