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We are coming into Acequia Siding on the northbound main line, with a coal empty. The crew was Bob Morley Conductor, Charlie Westfall, rear brakeman and Jimmy Cross was the head brakeman. I wa...

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I may have mentioned this in another entry, but the Railroads are required to ride the track every day for inspection. Maybe more, if a problem shows. An example would be a RED signal, with no ...

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Derailments, they are costly, not only to the railroad, but to the towns and cities they provide service to. As a retired railroad locomotive engineer, and a former Company officer, it has neve...

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During the early times, with my career on the Santa Fe and the Joint Line, there were business and economic changes . There was a time when I was barely hanging on, as a railroad fireman. I was...

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We still worked the passenger units as needed or requested. I was going through the tops. The pipe fitters were draining the steam generators and ready to clean the scale out of the pipes. This ...

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Well a day late and a dollar short. The kitchen is done, the poor ol Coops has passed. Here are the pictures. I didn’t take the pictures right away. I probably took before pics that since hav...

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The Caboose was attached and the air cut in. The false brake pipe showed 75 on the rear, which was legal. I doubt the engineer, felt that this was okay, when they were running around the Caboos...

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I wasn’t involved in this, and I wasn’t on this train. I was called to shove up a train, and we were held at Sedalia, Co on the southbound. We had instructions, not to proceed past MP 24.5 via...

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Dahkerry’s and the Ba’Haymas: As I wrote at the start, Russell liked motorcycles. He rode with another engineer, Bill Butler. Bill was the engineer on the 1st Beer Run on the C&S, out of D...

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Russell was a one of a kind. He was a decent engineer, but his downfall was that most of the people he worked with, he was hateful, resentful, disagreeable, and a general unpleasant person . I b...

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I was working a local, by choice, and our Conductor marked off the trip. It was a Wednesday, we have to go to the “Springs” , to switch the industries there. The brakeman, Pres Cordova, was ste...

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Ah the BN, pass it off to the next crew, just get it out of “our” terminal. Plus were were Santa Fe, and then hey it’s okay. We get called for a load, yeah no big deal its a load. We have a Ca...

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Wow… they are getting young. They also are clueless, and if they don’t get their asses chewed out by upper Division management, or the crews can have their way with them, you can see the frustrat...

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When I hired out, the engine crews were paid on the basis of weight on drivers. I see the question “What is that?” You add up the weight of each locomotive in your consist, totaled up, and loo...

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The load leaves, all is good or is it ? NOT. I am close to a 7/11, my dinner is cold. I go for a BIG Coffee, and the next best thing, “ROLLER FOOD”. A well done, over cooked, shriveled up Hot Dog...

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As a troubleshooter,I was working again, another night rotation. At the time we traded off at the 31st Street yard office. We locked up the truck, we had valet keys, hid the ignition and the pho...

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I hired out in 1973, in engine service for the Santa Fe Railroad. I rounded out a forty year career till I retired in 2012. Yeah math doesn’t add up, but I had a year and a half with the BN, ...

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These were predominant in my early railroad career. Caboose hops were multi- functional at that time. They were reposition moves for Cabooses need at the terminal, locomotive reposition move...

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I loved and respected Harold, I really did. Even though I am not BN now, I still report out of the Denver BN 23rd Street roundhouse. The year is probably mid ‘80’s , and I visit everybody as I ca...

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The Positioner that spots the next car or if multi-car dumping , into the facility. The Comanche did one at a time. The UFIX ( Utility Fuels Inc ) was what we hauled up here and toward t...

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When I talk about unloading coal at the Comanche Plant Exel Energy..this is what it is. No this is not the Comanche but an unloading facility like it. I take no credit for the video A mecha...

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Okay I know what your thinking, so get all these erotic thoughts out of your mind. I was a High School Junior when is occurred. Roses, the flowers, got stripped, of thorns etc, depending on the ...

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Doctor Bob .... Doctor Bob … Please report to the OR. I got called to unload a Comanche at the plant. Was a 359 pm call, and we waited an hour and a half for the train to arrive. The ...

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Jimmy Cross again and a few others I am back from my management task. Renzeberger is the BNSF contracted carrier for yard crews and the road as needed. Carol is about 58 to 65 years of age...

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I did it and walked it. It was a good walk and 3 hours 33 min. Not bad for a dumb ol rail. We saw Susie n Alex again. Susie ran the half with my wife. They watched the dumb ol Coops,...

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