I am guilty of forgetting. What are you looking for/I promised to send ?
> On Aug 30, 2018, at 8:48 PM, Dave Weber <dave@cimmarondesign.com> wrote:
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> yes, i stand corrected. where is thst condr/brakeman roster you were going to
> send?
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>> On Aug 30, 2018, at 5:21 PM, Leo Phillipp via Groups.Io
>> <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io> wrote:
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>> Doug,
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>> 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:
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>>> 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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