Do not hump!

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by sooblue

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

QUOTE: Originally posted by sooblue

Hi Friends,

Hey Sooblue - long time, no hear! Glad to see you are still out there!

Mookie

Hi Mookie,
I'm still here
Say! I was just out to Lincoln a few weeks ago. I'll be back later this summer. I can hardly wait to be able to walk through the rose garden and the sunken garden and go out to frontier park. I brought my 7 year old daughter out a few weeks ago and we climbed on the indian at the park. It was a little cold still though.

I love lincoln. just far enough to feel like a major trip and lots to see.
Sooblue

e-me! Let me know when! And don't expect to see the Sunken Garden - they are renovating it this year - completely down to it's shoes and socks. Wait until next year!

Have you been to the Children's Museum? Quite the place!

Mook

[CShaveRR]

Sis, be sure and tell Nora about the children's museum when she gets there. I will inform her that such an animal exists--should be out in Rochelle with her by this time tomorrow!

[Anonymous]

22 axle 750 gross ton Schnabel cars should never be humped as a matter of common sense, but that hasn't precluded them from being mishandled in the past. At most of the major hump yards "Do Not Hump" doesn't have much of an impact unless railroad officials at the respective yard are personally reminded of the nature of shipment , and even then the car could still be humped. All in all hump yards can be an adventure.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

I live about a mile or so from the crest of Clearing's bi-directional hump, and it appears that they run a pretty tight ship over there since we usually hear the squeal from the retarders regularly and only rarely do we hear the jolt from a carelessly hard coupling.

[AltonFan]

I remember once reading that one of the Chicago belt lines, I think it was the Indiana Harbor Belt, has a large flat classification yard in Indiana, and they are marketing it as a destination for loads that shouldn't be humped.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

IHB is apparently marketing itself as a hub for automotive traffic and Gibson Yard in Hammond, which used to be a hump, is routinely filled with auto racks.

[Rodney Beck]

Hi my name is Rodney after I got turned lose from the 15 week instant conductor training the only place I could work was the switchmans extra list. I was working the hump on 2nd trick when a load of light poles came to the crest we stopped humping. The forman asked the hump yardmaster what they wanted to do about this do not hump. The hump yardmaster said let it go over the crest that they had it under control WELL needless to say they did not have control the joint made and light poles went all over the place we had a good laugh at the mess that was made. The next thing the foreman and I was removed from the hump by the trainmaster for not following procedures boy am I glad that the local chairman was working the trimmer at the same time the recordings were played it was found that we were not at falut. Some strange things happen when working the hump. Rodney

[Anonymous]

I watched them hump a couple of ordinance cars at the new UP Davis yard in Roseville. I didn't know what they had but when they were cut loose, I went the other way