Gordon, From your description I would say you have the same ones in Texas that we have here. I believe this type of flange oiler to be standard across the ...
To all: ... John: In my essay "The Last Jofegan Turn?" I carelessly translated De Luz as The Light, when it should have been Of Light. Being ungrammatical ...
To all: ... It's pretty hard to top Frank Post's report of a curve on the Milwaukee Road "restricted" to 103 miles per hour, but I'll try. The best Santa Fe...
To all: I'm going to reprint this great story from Dean Millard, but with a couple of corrections: In the 3rd paragraph, I've inserted a period after "looked...
To all: ... I contacted Glen Icanberry, the expert on the history of Santa Fe stations in California, which I should have done in the first place, and found...
To all: ... Sawing By Trains During the waning days of passenger service, and the final total demise of it over the First District, it appeared to me that...
Hi, I looked for you on Reunion.com, but you weren't there. Please connect with me so we can keep in touch. -Richard Do You Know Richard? YES - Connect with...
To all: Welcome back from the holidays! And welcome to our new member Ken Casford. Stan Kistler asked me to add ... I would ask that you add a new member to...
Went to the refrigerator last night, looked at the callandar ahnging nearby and took a while but noticed the dates were all wrong. Wrong year of calendar. I...
Calendars repeat day/months every 7-8 years. So if you have them for that long just check Jan. 1 to see where it falls in day of the week of the year you need...
To all: ... John - The first time I met Ken Casford was when I was working at the LA Freight Station on 3rd St. In late '40s, or thereabouts, I thought I might...
To all: ... Yarding Trains During steam days and before radios on diesel engines, we were informed at the various yards to leave our trains in certain tracks...
To all: Historian Richard Thompson would like some help with a description of the process of hooping up orders to UP trains in Afton Canyon during WW2. He is...
John: These orders were rolled up and tied with a piece ot twine in a loop and strung around the wye shape, before that they were clipped to a wooden hoop....
To all: ... John - Back in the 40's we had switchtenders (& herder-bleeders) at the east (south) end of 6th Street for entering First Street Yard in LA. AYM's ...
To all: ... Question for Dean: Weren't the switch tenders also called herders? I recall as a kid we had "Hurd the herder" at the San Diego passenger yard and...
To all: ... John - During my career on Santa Fe, the delivery of train orders on the fly were either called train order hoops, or later train order forks... ...
To all: ... There was usually a string loop held by clips that would pull out when your arm hit the string. The orders were tied in the string loop. F.L. Post ...
To all: Frank Post had asked, "I wonder if Ken knew my dear friend, A.P. Smith?" ... Sorry, I can't recall A. P. Smith at this time. Ken Casford ... Thanks,...
Below is an email from another group I belong to (California Disasters) it might be of interest to all of you. The poster is noyeskim (Kim Noyes). Achtung...
To all: ... Allen P. Smith was an engineer. I first met him on VJ day 1945 when he was engineer on the helper on the "Chief" with engine 3721 out of San ...
To all: ... A.P. was a fine hogger; not the best, but damn good! F.L. Post; I fired for him many times and shared his love for hi-fi and good music. A.P. was...
To all: I had asked Bob Drenk, "And what was the job of the herder-bleeder?" ... John - A herder would guide the engine into the yard to ensure that all ...
Tommy Johnson told me this story about a painful experience with a cane hoop. Johnson had hired out around 1949 on the S.P. San Joaquin Division in engine...
