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RE: (erielack) Tutti Frutti Oh Rudy, Erie Style



  Just shows there's A--holes everywhere. One of my favorite memories is 
visiting Scranton yard in the early 70s. I'd only been gone 2-3 yrs and 
thought 'I'll go to the yard office & pick up an employee TT.'  The 
officious clerk on duty asked me 'was I an employee?'  I said I had been for 
11 years. Answer.........."If ur not one now, you are not entitled to an 
employee TT. Oh, and you'd better leave the property." Hey, maybe he was on 
a mission to 'save the railroad from dangerous ex-employees.

Regards,

Walt Smith


>From: "Philip Martin" <martinpl3_@_earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: "EL Mail List" <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>
>To: "EL Mail List" <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>
>Subject: RE: (erielack) Tutti Frutti Oh Rudy, Erie Style
>Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:32:08 -0500
>
>Good story, JG.
>"I will say that most of the former DL&W dispatchers (including the
>DL guys who became dispatchers after the merger) were a bit more
>professional and even tempered"
>Just to be contrary, did you ever work with the late Norm Reddy?
>Lackawanna man, but not always even tempered.  Or how about Booky, an Erie
>guy who is always professional.
>Getting tossed out of the dispatcher's office:  that's railfan's luck, sort
>of like fisherman's luck, but for railfans.  Myself and another railfan
>walked into Harmon shops one day in the early 1950ies, and the New York
>Central police intercepted us.  They said "sign the release," so we did,
>expecting good things.  Then they said "now get off the property."  Nasty
>surprise.  Or around the same time, I picked up part of an employee
>timetable in Hoboken yard, and then asked an employee if he could give me a
>complete one.  He thaught for a minute, and then said no.  That really
>really hurt.
>Philip Martin
>
>
>
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