Nudge Wrote:
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> Dick,
>
> I worked a goat every once and a while at the east
> end of Brooklyn yard and got stuck on the midnight
> goat for 30 days in the early 90s.
>
> We had to switch the dairy and a few other outfits
> down the hill to the steel bridge. I remember
> having to switch a cement plant and to leave and
> pick up cars at your interchange at least I
> thought it was yours. You had a bunch of passenger
> equipment stored there, it looked like a complete
> consist. Oh, and that little short baggage car
> that was to made into a steam jenny and Bob Melbo
> was the Superintendent on the SP at the time.
>
> Did you every get any of that business or did the
> UP keep it?
>
> Also the time we moved a car up the hill to
> Brooklyn where other items were stored or could be
> worked on. It had brass journals, no brakes, cast
> wheels, you name it. Had to chain the drawbars
> together to keep the knuckles from passing. Just
> another day.
>
> Met you once at Shady Dell when I was there
> running my 2-6-0 Mogal, many moons ago. Glad to
> see you made a success of your endeavors and
> another 25 years to look forward to.
>
> Nudge

A LOT has changed from those "good old days"...The max Orange Line crosses our main track on a fully automated interlocking plant..Dairy is gone; the cement plant you had to cross the "PEP" to switch is gone; all of the industries between Brooklyn and the Steel Bridge are gone; Bob Melbo now works for ODOT Rail Division...the only remaining thorn in UP's side is our interchange... LONG LIVE "THE PEP"!!!

Dick Samuels