[AT] Old trains

[charliehill]

The down grade braking didn't bother me near as bad as the up hill pull 
going out of town.  I've been told that grade along Hillsboro street is one 
of the steepest rail grades on the east coast.  The trains typically had 4 
engines pulling and 2 pushing.   I think that west bound freight went out 
about 3AM (sometime in the middle of the night).  Just about the time we'd 
all get back to sleep the two pusher engines would wake us back up going 
back to the yard.  It didn't help that every kid in the dorm (about 2000 or 
so) would yell at the train at the top of their lungs.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Bruce" <davidbruce at yadtel.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Old trains


>I spent my 4 years in one of the highrise towers and watching RFD fight
> a fire along the right of way about  30 feet from my dorm was
> "interesting" to say the least. the least.  That 2:30AM (or so east
> bound train always woke me up that first year. Headed down the grade to
> the station with all the cars banging against the car couplings as the
> brakes were engaged.  It was quite a bit different from my home county
> which still has no railroad track at all.
>
> The balloon fest had gone on for several nights and after a close call
> with the roof of our dorm my roommate and I decided to skip the last
> lift off - turned out to be a wise idea.  He was the stereotypical
> "preacher's kid" and always into some sort of mischief.
>
> David
> NW NC
>
>
> charliehill wrote:
>> David, his might have been heading for the train also as you know but 
>> most
>> others don't the railroad track is just a few yards past those dorms as 
>> you
>> walk from the intermural fields.
>>
>> As for those balloons, I had never seen those small, light weight hot air
>> balloons until just this weekend.  On some news program they were showing 
>> a
>> world record attempt in Taiwan or somewhere.   The sky was full of those
>> things.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>>
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