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Subject: Re: [CBQ] New Man
From: "Dave Weber" <dave@cimmarondesign.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 19:48:38 -0600
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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
>> 
>>> 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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