[AT] Old trains

[Don Bowen]

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 ........

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Don Bowen           KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html