I spent another four hours today trying to help sort and catalog the huge volume of C&S and Q records -- most from the mechanical department -- archived at the Colorado Railroad Museum Library, which
Keep it coming Hol...I love this old correspondence...I have little or no interest in the cars themselves, but the old "railroad terminology" which is found on every piece of correspondence on every
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 19:41:43 -0800 (PST)
Pete I learned that langage as boy at the depot. I still use some of it and sometimes get some strange looks. I remember a hobo getting a one way ticket home, "account special agent". John Keep it
John Something that hangs in my memory vividly is listening to the old time TO operators repeat a train order. I wish there were some old timers still around who could do it for a recording. If you w
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 18:57:01 -0800 (PST)
Pete You mean like: Extra 6312 north six three one two north meet No 12 one two motor 9844 nine eight four four at Cambon C-a-m-b-o-n, all in one breath! It all took two seconds. John John Somethin
Yes, with the numbers spelled out as well as the town names..viz 6312 six, s-i-x, three t-h-r-e-e one, o-n-e, two t-w-o...Justice can't be done by writing it out..You have to be there and hear it in
Actually the writen number would not become part of the Train Order. It would be X6312 North meet #12, motor car 9844 at Cambon.. The spelling of locations also do not become part of the actual o
That's exactly right Cy Pete Actually the writen number would not become part of the Train Order. It would be X6312 North meet #12, motor car 9844 at Cambon.. The spelling of locations also do not be
When AMTRAK (my employer) moved from the GN depot to Midway Station on 3/1/78 all ticket office personel had to learn to be operators and were tested by the rules examineers from AMTRAK, BN, and Milw