Re: 1966, teenage railfan takes joy ride in locomotive on the branch line
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 02-14-2017 - 15:58
Nudge Wrote:
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> Don't forget to include the brakeman that took a
> switch engine out of the SJ depot in the 70s. Left
> a union meeting in the afternoon, Drunker than
> $900. All went well until he ran into the caboose
> of an east bound around Luther Jct. Hurt both
> trainman
> BUT
> WAIT,................
>
> He got back to work, went into engine service and
> was an engineer a few years later. That's a true
> story. Ask anyone that worked the Coast back
> then.
>
>
> Nudge
Just for the sake of full disclosure, the individual was subsequently permanently dismissed for a non-operating issue.