Re: (erielack) The Hayshaker

["Fred Stratton" <erief7_@_msn.com>]

Don't forget too, it helps the younger you are the more you can commit to memory. I can remember to this day what the diamond at Mt. View looked like before it was torn right after the EL merger, but I have trouble remembering what happended yesterday. :-)





Fred Stratton

MP. 7.2 NS Asheville line

Salisbury, NC


From: Robert Stafford <erielack1_@_yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Robert Stafford <erielack1_@_yahoo.com>
To: List ErieLackawannna <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>
Subject: Re: (erielack) The Hayshaker
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 19:30:04 -0700 (PDT)
>When ever I am working at a new station or terminal one of things I do when I first arrive is to drive and scout the area and then walk the tracks and also make my own hand drawn maps of what I saw out their. I just scaned and sent some of these maps to a fellow list member who is planning a new layout to help with his track planning. Walking is one of the best ways to remember what is out their in complex areas.
> Bob Stafford
>
>Richard Pennisi <eldispatcher72_@_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Listers,
>
>Some people have photgraphic memories, others like myself, 
make hand drawn diagrams of the track, signals, stations, road crossings and other notable items along the way. I walked track and when possible rode trains over territories I qualified on as a train dispatcher on the EL. I'm sure Steve Timko did the same.
>
>In some cases, one trip over a certain piece of railroad made a good enough impression on me. Yes, the railroad supplied track charts of the territory you were trying to learn, but that isn't always good enough. When you see what's actually out there, you understand just what the crews are trying to tell you about certain situations.
>
>Some times when riding a train over a territory you are trying to learn, you miss too much as you may be traveling too fast or just BSing with the crew.
>
>Rich Pennisi
>
>
>eljefe3126_@_netscape.net wrote:
>Leaving aside the question of 
whether someone could really hike all the way from Kent to Meadville in 3 days (must have set a good pace!), I have to question what good that would do. I mean, you couldn't learn both the 1st and 2nd subdivisions that way without going back a second time, could you?
>
>Jeff Larson
>ELHS #2683
>
>
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>Subject: Re: (erielack) The Hayshaker
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>GEE, Tim & others.........
>
>
>(snip)
>
>I remember working on the ERIE Mahoning Div'n as an operator and asking a dispatcher (Ray 
Brody) how he managed to learn the road. I was advised that he got a knapsack & left Kent & WALKED all the way to Meadville (in 3 days). WHAT a difference!
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