Re: (erielack) Re: How many work for a railroad?

["Jon Scaptura" <jscaptura_@_stny.rr.com>]

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Subject: (erielack) Re: How many work for a railroad?


> On August 18th, Paul B asked this question of the E  list:
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> I would like to now just how many of the members worked on a  RR?
>

I don't know if this qualifies as working, but as a teen, I joined the Tioga 
Transportation Society, received training and volunteered for The Tioga 
Central Railroad when they still ran the old ex-LV line from Owego to 
Dryden. Training was fun. We received a TCRR rule book and a Conrail rule 
book. After the classroom time (at the local grange hall), we got down to 
business practicing giving hand signals and coupling and uncoupling cars. 
After successfully coupling the loco to a string of cars and connecting the 
air, it was my turn to then go through the uncoupling routine. I did 
everything as I should, and gave the signal for the ALCO switcher to pull 
away. I was so proud of myself, that I forgot to signal the engineer to 
stop, until someone reminded me that he was about 1/4 mile away. Them was 
the days. 



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