Re: Yet more C&TS pics, 6/23-6/24
| July 04, 2021 03:56PM |
This isn't a hobby. It's a railroad. And having a hot locomotive with headlight on means "ready to move at any time". You simply don't take chances on having someone in a blind spot being oblivious. A gentle/kind reminder is fine and not unreasonable. Your bristling is not reasonable - your offense fails to recognize that the other person cares about you not being an injury statistic like that woman hit 3 years ago by the 844 because she didn't stand clear of the track.
SRK
Chris Walker Wrote:
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> IanLK Wrote:
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> > Definitely not a Karen, Chris. Just a gentleman
> > with the railroad or Friends who calmly asked I
> > not stand within 20 feet of a hot locomotive's
> > path, lest someone leave the Johnson bar in
> notch
> > 1 and it drift over me.
>
>
> My retort to that "gentleman", would have been
> along the lines of "What sort of cowboys you got
> runnin' the loco's here, Pal !"
>
>
> Mind you, in all fairness, I suppose it's a tough
> job herdin' the Sheep thesedays. Eh!
SRK
Chris Walker Wrote:
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> IanLK Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Definitely not a Karen, Chris. Just a gentleman
> > with the railroad or Friends who calmly asked I
> > not stand within 20 feet of a hot locomotive's
> > path, lest someone leave the Johnson bar in
> notch
> > 1 and it drift over me.
>
>
> My retort to that "gentleman", would have been
> along the lines of "What sort of cowboys you got
> runnin' the loco's here, Pal !"
>
>
> Mind you, in all fairness, I suppose it's a tough
> job herdin' the Sheep thesedays. Eh!
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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