Brad and list You should have seen the Freight Claims Dept. on the Rock Island...don't think that it was any worse than the Q or any other RR...talk about antiquated. Nothing was ever thrown away...W
Brad When I was Manager Freight Claims at RI our office seemed to be the place of last resort when someone had a bill they didn't know what to do with. We too would get the $3.76 items, but the most
Russ and list Last night, for my bedtime reading pleasure I pulled out BB 41 and Russ's notes re the Buda depot interior photo on page 82. I couldn't resist the urge to make some additional comments.
Gerald RE: the missing element........"You're right for Eversharp".....you're probably old enough to know what that means. I thought that someone would get it right away. I have seen a few Sir Walter
Gerald et al BTW...I think that I am missing something re the reference to Chairman Mao...When Russ threw that one at me I thought that he was just jerking my chain, but what I'm picking up is that t
Dale Indeed it is the tobacco can......Most likely Prince Albert, but I have see a few Sir Walter Raleighs over the years. Pete [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Russ In your previous post you mentioned the TT instructions that Zephyr type motor trains must slow to 60 to pick up orders. I've also noticed in some of the old TT's that orders can only be handed
Warren and list I was just discussing with another ancient railroader today re what you mentioned about location of fireman whenever anything amiss occurred. He was ALWAYS back in the engine room. I
Russ Thanks...makes sense to me. When I was braking I always did the put your foot down a step or two, hang onto the overhead grab iron, and be on almost one knee. I only missed orders once...That wa
RE: Brackets A bracket indicates that there is a track between the signal and the track that it governs. This is explained in the operating rules, but I can't give you a specific reference without sa
Thanks Mike....I love it. I presume that you have gone to the ICC Investigations Website and read some of the old stuff there. Seems like before diesels that the "I was down puttin in a fire" was the
Russ et al There are two more that, in my opinion top that one In 1953 there was a 100 MPH turnover of train No. 14 east of Creston, IA because the fireman was back in the engine room and the hoghead
Bill and list I have never been in engine service, and don't know all of the rules pertaining thereto, but on some roads, perhaps all, the fireman on a passenger train was required to be in the cab a
Warren You've got the right one...all that you said in your post is in the ICC investigation. I think it was 1953. Pete [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Yesterday, while perusing a book of historical items from the St. Joseph (MO) News Press headlines and articles, I came across photos of an event I had never heard about and saw a photograph of an un
This morning while "wasting time" (my dad's words relative to my reading RAILROAD MAGAZINE) perusing my "mother lode" of old RR Magazines purchased at the St. Louis MOT on Friday 13th...certainly a "
John Thanks for the memories....I had just about forgotten about "no bill" applying to a non union employee....Also your reference to the WWIB....I used to have lots of dealings with them as Manager
John Thanks for the laugh...however I would have to disagree with you RE WWIB and Enron. They would have checked everything...put it in a file and nobody would have ever asked them about it....It's a
While this material doesn't directly involve the Q or the RI, I found it interesting and probably the same conditions prevailed on our favorite railroads. Since there has been quite a bit of conversa