Virlon Wrote:
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> I remember back in the mid
> 60's, I was working a local out of Los Nietos, CA.
> and every week my braking partner and I would
> trade off getting to work 45 minutes to an hour
> early to work so that we could put our grips,
> water and other supplies on one of the two "Cruds"
> at LNS. There were 5 engines and 4 crews that went
> on duty around the same time. So, if we got our
> stuff on one of the cruds it was pretty well
> "reserved" as we had already serviced it.

Same thing, sort of, at City of Industry back in '71 when I was working the Anaheim Hauler. C of I was the home of the C-415s, but most crews preferred the SW1500s ("most" being the operative word here). The Anaheim Hauler was the first job on duty in the morning (at 5:05 AM, seven days a week, and you'd seldom make it back to C of I within the Hours of Service - can't believe I used to love that!), and the first order of business was to switch out a two-unit consist of SW1500s. But I actually preferred the C-415s, even though they were junk. I thought they were neat and fun to run, same as I thought about the U25Bs. Used to do the same thing at the Links - put the SW1500 away and dig out a Baldwin.