All Rip stories were prefaced with "Ah, Jeeeeesus Christ........" which was the prelude to a dandy. My all time favorite is the one he tells about "Stutterin' Stew" wiping-out his waycar on the Runni
Nelson? You're probably right, Karl. Most of Rip's classics involved those who were a generation ahead of us, and for me, their names and events were easy to confuse. Fortunately, they laid the groun
Rip told me the largest piece of the waycar's body he could find, post-collision, could easily fit in his grip. Too bad this event wasn't recorded on movie film for our viewing pleasure. RC [Non-text
Sounds similar to the incident the "Governor" had at the Park, when he got a drawbar in the middle of his engine consist while setting-out cars for the Harbor. RC [Non-text portions of this message h
from the Eola Ydmstr (why him and not the DS?) to keep the Jordan spreader Isn't a Jordan Spreader a REO, even in 1941? Lucky the Yardmaster and T&E crew weren't fired for taking 88 cars BEHIND a spr
Leo - When I saw the title on this post, I thought "Here we go again on that ATC vs. ACS discussion, again" (Mike used it [ATC] in Vol. 4 wrong, on several captions, but we know what he meant). My ex
Marshall, John - Screwing the feed valve up to "passenger air" should have been used only when the air operated equipment was buried in the train. Of course, in this situation, anytime the spreader o
The one thing I have learned while working for Amtrak - the fine art of deficit financing. Part time work at Arthur Anderson and Enron helped me hone the skill. Now let's see, set the oven to bake at
Russ - Can you give us a more detailed description of "lead qualified"? Does this have to do with the conductor's light & table? Bob [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
I have a few comments to make about "Permissive Signals" which I believe is the signal aspect being discussed (haven't got my copy of Vol. # 4 yet) but unfortunately, if # 3 is to make it to Ft. Madi
Leo - If Mike has the right date on that photo of the EB dinky at Congress Park (Feb. '61) our buddy Willard would have only been a Junior at LTHS. But then again, I wouldn't put it past Bill to try
In 1971, I was a fireman with a Chicago Division engineer on an early evening eastbound dinky (3 DD + 1 PC + an "E" unit). Since it was my "turn" to run, I made a comment to my engineer about how fas