[AT] Old trains

[charliehill]

sounds logical to me.  Remember 30 years or so ago when they had the big 
blackout  in NY.  There was a boom in births 9 months later.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Bowen" <don.bowen at earthlink.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Old trains


> charliehill wrote:
>>  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.
> There is a story and I have no idea how true it is.  We all know the
> difference between a fairy tale adn a sea story, the fairy tale starts
> with "Once upon a time" where teh sea story starts with "Now this is no
> s....".
>
> A little mining town had a sudden spike in births.  The doctors were
> wondering why and some local students did the research.  It was a mining
> town where the mines whistle regulated activities.  A whistle blew to
> wake up workers and another for start of the shifts and so on.  The
> railroad had changed the schedule to have the trains arrive early enough
> that freight would be unloaded and ready for the mines at the start of
> the day shift.  This was about a half hour before the first whistle of
> the day.  The trains at the time used the whistle, so many toots to
> apply brakes, so many to say they were backing up, four for a crossing,
> etc.  Well the workers were awakened a half hour or so before they
> needed to get up and not enough time to go back to sleep so why not roll
> over and ........
>
> -- 
> Don Bowen           KI6DIU
> http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
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