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From: "Dave Weber" <dave@cimmarondesign.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 08:38:13 -0600
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R L Moore fireman date 12-16-45 engr date 7-19-55

> On Aug 29, 2018, at 7:14 PM, Leo Phillipp via Groups.Io 
> <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io> wrote:
> 
> Don't ask me why these stories pop into my head as I can't explain.
> 
> It was January 1973, yes on the BN, but it's still a Q story. I was a newly 
> minted brakeman with all the "extensive training" of time period. Three 
> student trips, one on the Irish Mail, one at Eola yard and a third that 
> escapes my memory or simply got eliminated.
> 
> At any rate I'm now the head brakeman on a westbound freight in the siding at 
> Burke,IL meeting an eastbound crawling its way up the hill from Savanna. 
> After the eastbounder clears the "DS" comes on the radio and says to us he 
> can't get the west switch at Burke to operate. So he continues "it's OK 
> operate the west switch at Burke on manual per Rule xyz and restore the 
> switch to power per the rule". As a fully qualified brakeman with two, maybe 
> three student trips and without any review or testing on the Consolidated 
> Code of Operating Rules, I had not the slightest idea what he was talking 
> about and so informed the very senior engineer. 
> 
> This engineer, Ray, also know as "Velvet" for his train handling skills 
> advised the "DS" that this would take a little time as he had to show the 
> "new man" how to perform this task. In his wingtips Ray walked up in the snow 
> with me to the switch, no I'm not exaggerating ,explained and showed me how 
> to take the switch off power, throw that massive mainline switch and stressed 
> how to put it back on power once the lead motor was on the switch.
> 
> I don't remember if it was this trip or others that Ray was beside himself 
> explaining how he ran trains on this track at 100 MPH that now were covered 
> with 40 MPH slow orders and was really beside himself as to far things had 
> decayed. Clearly he was among many of the most senior Aurora Division 
> employees who never thought the glory days of Zephyrs, high speed extras and 
> specials would ever disappear.
> 
> I don't have an engineers seniority list handy but my recollection is Ray's 
> seniority date was from from the early 1930s. He also once shared he actually 
> started on the Q on the section gang at Streator,IL explaining to me why only 
> a few ties were changed out at time vs several in a row.
> 
> Leo
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