"No soup for you!" - Yev Kassem (from Seinfeld)
QUOTE: Originally posted by theNomad . After all, if you're having fun, it ain't work, and that's the best reason there is. --JD Nomad
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Jock Ellis Cumming, GA US of A Georgia Association of Railroad Passengers
QUOTE: Originally posted by jockellis G'Day, Y'all, Do engineers still have to retire at the mandatory age of 65? Talking about children and trains, I met an elderly man whose father ran a wood-fired locomotive for a timber company line in the Florida panhandle. He said the most exciting thing he'd ever done was ride in the cab with his father who had told his wife to have the boy at a certain grade crossing where he would pick the lad up. Jock Ellis Cumming, GA US of A
"We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo Possum "We have met the anemone... and he is Russ." Bucky Katt "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in physics
QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton Mitch I don't remember a nine year old kid collecting tickets for me. Maybe I was just a mean 18 year old kid myself, and I might have told you to sit down and work on your sketch pad. On the other hand, I don't remember a whole bunch from 1959. My memory banks probably get overwritten. Got to run, but will probably put my take on this subject later. Jay
QUOTE: Originally posted by Penn Central Black ARTMARK: You and I must be siamese twins, seperated at birth: It is a shame we never worked a passenger train together. We seem to be singing off the same sheet of music. Actually, I was, for a time (1974), employed by C&NW. If you have access to the C&NWRyHist Soc: NORTH WESTERN LINES, see my lengthy autobio segment " CHICAGO DIARY - 1974", published in the C&NW PEOPLE issue about a year & a half ago. Regards D. F. Kydd C&NW Ry emplyee # 120559. p.s., your comment " those that should have never been permitted a PASSENGERS are now becoming hired as TRAINMEN" etc is right on the mark.
QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton Mitch Actually, there was probably dozen of us or so in an under 25 group. We hung out and partied (off duty, of course) a fair amount. Among the whole roster, I'd have to say there was almost the whole range of people, some good, some not so good. Among the engineers, Jim McCorkle was one of my favorites. He mostly worked evenings when I was there, and from time to time he would let me run a few stops. I started in the spring of 1959, and worked there for about three years. On that job, it didn't take very long before it was same ol', same ol'. I swear, I could ride on train blindfolded, and say exactly where we were. I was trying to take some courses to continue my college education, but the randomness of the schedule was messing me up. One day, I was deadheading into Randolph Street to get my evening rush assignment and as we rolled into the station I thought, "I don't want to get up and I don't want to sit here either." It was time to move on. Jay PS Now I know for sure you never rode in my car. For all the tickets I handled, I would have detected a difference in the texture and thicknes of the stock.[;)][;)]
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