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RE: (erielack) Ray Ruff, Denville, etc
OK. Len,
consider yourself out of service until Sammy Miller can convene a
hearing & find you guilty of listening to a radio while on duty (even if it
was the moon landing).
Regards,
Walt Smith
>From: "Len VanderJagt" <lvj911_@_worldnet.att.net>
>Reply-To: "Len VanderJagt" <lvj911_@_worldnet.att.net>
>To: <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>
>Subject: (erielack) Ray Ruff, Denville, etc
>Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:37:59 -0500
>
>Just for clarification, please. Do I understand from a previous post that
>Ray wound up his career as the station cleaner at Summit? I always
>wondered what happened to towermen as everything was consolidated in
>Hoboken.
>
>I don't have the picture in front of me right now, but it was taken in
>Denville Tower. There simply is no other tower with that machine and
>interior. All of those white levers would indicate that this photo was
>taken after they tore out most of the plant and tracks on the Boonton side,
>after I left..
>
>I listened to the first landing on the moon while working Denville Tower,
>and I posted there under Jack Swenson, including the day which marked his
>54th year on the railroad, almost entirely spent in Denville. He hired on
>in 1913. So we still can have the second person accounts of things on the
>railroad that happened a hundred years ago.
>
>With regard to "running the clock" and "grinding off the time", I can
>remember almost every time I had to do that. As Rich said, those two to
>four minutes lasted forever. During that time you would have to notify the
>dispatcher what was up, never a happy message. At the very least, you were
>in technical violation of having signals cleared in advance of an immediate
>move without authorization. That was a "jaywalking" type of offense,
>however, particularly on the Lackawanna side where all signals cleared
>themselves if you kept them pulled off. No big deal would be holding up a
>through passenger train or hot freight. On the Erie side, signals did not
>clear themselves and so railfans could have a pretty good idea of if a
>train was approaching if the home signal was not at "stop."
>
>Len VanderJagt
>
>
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