yes, i stand corrected. where is thst condr/brakeman roster you were going to
send?
> On Aug 30, 2018, at 5:21 PM, Leo Phillipp via Groups.Io
> <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io> wrote:
>
> Doug,
>
> I try to avoid naming names to protect the guilty. I haven't heard the Rip
> story so thanks for that.and don't doubt it's authenticity based on rides
> behind "Velvet". On the other hand I'm sure hoggers had lots of nicknames for
> Condrs and brakeman. The one I heard on a regular basis was " he couldn't
> switch out a one car funeral train without making a double move".
>
> Then there was the investigation that I was invited "to determine your
> responsibility......."
> On a certain incident at Congress Park and while the entire train crew
> testified that the stop at the south wye was routine, mgmt. apparently didn't
> agree as they gave the hogger 30 days off for turning over several hundred
> feet of mainline rail and making a royal mess of that nights dinky parade.
>
> Which leads me to an upcoming article in this falls BRHS Bulletin where yours
> truly thought that at minimum his RR career was going to have a 45-60 day gap
> and was maybe over. But a member of management stepped forward before an
> investigation could even be called and said the train crew was not at fault.
> It was trespassers.
>
> For those on this list who aren't BRHS members you'll actually save money by
> getting your membership applications in vs. buying the Bulletin over the
> counter .
>
> Dave W. the name you supplied wasn't "velvet". His nickname was a vegetable
> that is widely grown here in northern Illinois and enjoyed from late June to
> early Sept. it is also widely canned and frozen for year round consumption.
>
> Leo
>
>> On Aug 30, 2018, at 4:52 PM, Doug Hartman <douglas.p.hartman@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Velvet was Emsinger (spelling?). Leo, speaking of the old smooth-touch, you
>> hear about the time he sent Rip from one of way car to the other? I believe
>> Ripetto was in his "Savanna night out" best. I think that might be where the
>> "velvet" nickname was aquired. Or maybe not. Heard that story like 45 years
>> ago.
>> Doug
>>
>> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network.
>> Original Message
>> From: Dave Weber
>> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2018 9:38 AM
>> To: CBQ@groups.io
>> Reply To: CBQ@groups.io
>> Subject: Re: [CBQ] New Man
>>
>> R L Moore fireman date 12-16-45 engr date 7-19-55
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>>> 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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