The train hunters

be bary bary quiet...i'm huntin traims

Trains are easy to hunt, they leave tracks...

Rusty

Hot box inspectors with weapons n' attitude

This clearly is a Road Foreman of Engines training class.  They are being taught how to conduct field observation of operating crews.   😉

Curt

chinatrain99 posted:

be bary bary quiet...i'm huntin traims

Daffy Duck, the official proclaimer of seasons, has not spoken about this.

juniata guy posted:

This clearly is a Road Foreman of Engines training class.  They are being taught how to conduct field observation of operating crews.   😉

Curt

Curt I remember one night my Step Dad came home from work, and he was usually a quiet man, but this time he was extra quiet....Sat the Kitchen table with a 3/4 glass of Hard liquor, he told my mother that he didn't ever, even as a kid hide in the weeds, to catch somebody doing something out of the normal.....He said he wasn't about to start doing it now, that he'd taken a promotion to Road Foreman, and if the Southern Railway having him hide in the tall grass, and weeds, was all they had, he'd be more than happy to start running freight engines again.......When I 1st saw the pic of the soldiers laying on the road bed, and reading your post, it all came home, of what the Old Man was raising Hell about.....

It didn't stop there, because the local Superintendent in Louisville Magnolia Street Yard, had a Pow-Wow with the Old Man, and I remember him telling my Mom at church the following Sunday, they he could have dumped water on the Old Man's Head and got steam. I remember him saying the Old Man covered everything from "marginal equipment", to "Slow Arriver's" in the personnel dept..........Lol! 

The tie spacing seems pretty large.

...or else?

"I done a good thing!  I caught a train!"  

Mitch

I doubt there's any gold in them thar hills.

To think they ALL forgot to pack the trench shovels.