Early east end Diesels

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Harry - Carl had a sense of humor, all right.

They sent him to Brewster as Supt. and he was being shown around; the "show-er" stopped him in front of a large photo of one of their 2-8-4s and was waxing ecstatically about its capabilities.  When he finally ran down, Carl put it right into him:  "Nice little engine", Carl said . . .

EdK
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  Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 8:08 AM
  Subject: Re: Early east end Diesels


  Thanks, Ed.  In the early days of dieseldom  perhaps things
  really weren't that bad.  I caught a Chicago coal train out of
  Bellevue one Sunday afternoon -  an SD-45 and three other
  assorted units, 114 cars.  The engineer had'em in "Run 8"
  leaving the New Connection when the trailing three units shut
  down.  The fireman went back to try to remedy the problem,
  but couldn't.  I guess it was an M/U failure.  The SD-45
  toted 114 cars and three dead units all the way to Fostoria.
  The engineer was squeamish about going any further for fear
  the SD-45 would shut down and  tie up the world.  It was Sunday,
  so a passenger-geared GP-9 was appropriated from Blair Yard's
  week day crew and we went on to Ft. Wayne after going in the
  hole at North Findlay to meet six eastbounds.  Those SD-45's
  were something else.

  The late Carl Lewey -  I can't speak for his mechanical
  expertise.  I'm not mechanically oriented. But I'll certainly
  remember him for some of his statements:

  "My family moved to Crewe and we rented a house for $65 a
  month.  The clerk told me I'd been gouged."

  En route to Norfolk on No. 4 for an impending strike- "Not to
  worry.  We;ll have diner tonight on Dick and come back 
  tomorrow."  We got back four days later.

  "The best place I ever lived was Iaeger. May family had an
  apartment over a service station of U.S. 52".                      
                                                                  Harry Bundy






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