Re: C&TSRR 15

My three-summer,'60s ATSF switching career was spent mostly in Abq working the Abajo yard and then-many area rail customers, switched the blazing-hot El Paso yard for a week, dumped ore cars at the Kennecott copper smelter at Hurley, spent a weekend shifting cars in Raton.
Other than at crossings, we never used horn sigs; hands only, sometimes waving orange timetables, fusees, lanterns; had no field radios then.

Showoff loco drivers in Chama yard often blast their signals while moving locos and assembling trains, totally unnecessary unless out on the mainline, and highly annoying to nearby townspeople and businesses.
A few years ago, our irritated beverage time on Foster's veranda prompted a complaint to then-GM Tim Tennant, who toned down the shrieking.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/18/2014 07:30PM by Abqfoamer.