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21. [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz (score: 1): Author: "dr strangelove" <kaiserwillieii0815@yahoo.com>; Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 06:55:02 -0600; If I was back home, I am sure I could talk someone into showing the signals. Film them for posterity. I guess one could use these for model railroading too. Anyone with a video camera willing to demo; /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00097.html (11,635 bytes)
22. [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz (score: 1): Author: William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com>; Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 09:58:45 -0600; 1a Re: Abbreviation quiz "Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com" petehedgpeth Fri Jan 4, 2013 7:08 pm (PST) . Posted by: Pete, Hand signals aren't dead in the RR industry, today. My son, a U.P. engineer, and I were d; /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00102.html (16,523 bytes)
23. Re: [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz (score: 1): Author: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com; Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 12:09:01 -0500 (EST); I've always liked "THAT'LL DO". In the December issue of TRAINS there was a story entitled ADVENTURES IN CREW CALLING'...after a conductor fell on his face and was able to get on his waycar his rear; /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00106.html (22,680 bytes)
24. Re: [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz (score: 1): Author: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com; Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 12:12:45 -0500 (EST); I never could get those above 5 figured out..Especially those done with a lantern in the dark....I remember reading in the old RAILROAD MAGAZINE accounts by old heads who said that a crew could work; /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00108.html (23,675 bytes)
25. Re: [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz (score: 1): Author: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com; Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 12:26:03 -0500 (EST); Leo has done at least two...maybe more "clinics" on hand signs at BRHS meetings...He's the guy to do it. There was an aritlce in one of the old RAILROAD MAGAZINES on hand signs..I think it was from t; /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00110.html (13,738 bytes)
26. Re: [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz (score: 1): Author: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com; Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 12:33:47 -0500 (EST); 1a Re: Abbreviation quiz "Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com" petehedgpeth Fri Jan 4, 2013 7:08 pm (PST) . Posted by: Bill et all...I've always thought that. Sometimes technology "gets in the way" and the "cure be; /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00111.html (16,783 bytes)
27. Re: [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 09:38:57 -0800 (PST); I used to like to listen to the fireman pass signals to the engineer. The good ones could drew out "easy" into about a five syllable word and no fireman ever yelled "stop" at an engineer! It was alwa; /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00112.html (23,816 bytes)
28. Re: [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 09:47:35 -0800 (PST); One of the funniest stories I ever read in those old RAILROAD MAGAZINES was about a greenhorn fireman who watching for signals at night. A switchman was riding high on a boxcar when he dropped his la; /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00113.html (25,003 bytes)
29. [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz (score: 1): Author: "mdeckergwtcnet" <mdecker@gwtc.net>; Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:55:01 -0600; That'll do doesn't cut it anymore :>) They did go back to letting the ground man say "half a car" instead of "25 feet", but it has to be "Stop" now, if you don't want to risk an "efficiency Failure"; /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00116.html (13,460 bytes)
30. Re: [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 10:28:21 -0800 (PST); You might say they have took all the fun (and the color) out of railroading, but things like "set and centered" have placed a whole new emphasis on safety. There will be a lot fewer guys "cut in thre; /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00117.html (14,894 bytes)
31. Re: [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz (score: 1): Author: kenneth chapin <kenneth_chapin@yahoo.com>; Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 10:58:27 -0800 (PST); You might say they have took all the fun (and the color) out of railroading, but things like "set and centered" have placed a whole new emphasis on safety. There will be a lot fewer guys "cut in thr; /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00118.html (16,381 bytes)
32. Re: [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz (score: 1): Author: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com; Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 13:58:55 -0500 (EST); I remember that story...Here's a quickie...Definition of a "fixed signall"... A student brakeman on the ground with a cinder in his eye and his lantern out" This too from RAILROAD Pete --Original Mes; /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00119.html (26,364 bytes)
33. Re: [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz (score: 1): Author: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com; Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 14:07:42 -0500 (EST); Just as I thought Mike. RE: carlengths...Used to be you figured about a "rail length" plus a lttle for a C/L...in days of mostly 40 ft cars. Now I guess everything almost is well above that number. P; /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00122.html (15,146 bytes)
34. Re: [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz (score: 1): Author: Richard Kistler <rckistler@windstream.net>; Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 13:51:23 -0600; Pete - Used to hear some good signals over the radio - one old brakeman would holler "go ahead and back up", to which the engineer would ask "which do you want me to do first, go ahead or back up?" T; /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00123.html (12,208 bytes)
35. [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz (score: 1): Author: "mdeckergwtcnet" <mdecker@gwtc.net>; Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 16:55:01 -0600; Ya, Pete. When I hired out we had a pole line. There were 40 poles to the mile, and I figured 2-1/2 cars to the pole. Everybody else was taught that when they hired out, so even with new guys, the ca; /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00130.html (13,772 bytes)
36. Re: [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz (score: 1): Author: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com; Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 18:46:24 -0500 (EST); Richard et al Harking back to my days on the Fairmont-Hildreth local with conductor Merle Caldwell....After a trip or two Merle, apparently, decided that I was trustworth enough to go to Nelson by my; /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00137.html (14,241 bytes)
37. Re: [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz (score: 1): Author: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com; Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 18:58:28 -0500 (EST); Think about many many years ago when there were no speed recorders or speedmeters...Those old engineers always knew just how fast they were going. The timetables all carried a section indicating the; /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00138.html (15,642 bytes)
38. Re: [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz (score: 1): Author: Art Peterson <artpeterson38@yahoo.com>; Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 18:04:12 -0800 (PST); Think about many many years ago when there were no speed recorders or speedmeters...Those old engineers always knew just how fast they were going. The timetables all carried a section indicating the; /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00142.html (17,355 bytes)
39. Re: [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz (score: 1): Author: William Jackson <macon249@yahoo.com>; Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 22:02:18 -0500; Ya, Pete. When I hired out we had a pole line. There were 40 poles to the mile, and I figured 2-1/2 cars to the pole. Everybody else was taught that when they hired out, so even with new guys, the c; /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00143.html (15,383 bytes)
40. [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz (score: 1): Author: "mdeckergwtcnet" <mdecker@gwtc.net>; Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:55:02 -0600; Or less complimentary things Bill....LOL The last time I saw Jim was at Overland Park when they had us down there for our first Re-cert. Jim was our ATM when the rear truck on my lead motor split the; /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00151.html (13,404 bytes)

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