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Re: SP #6447 with Amtrak #6 at Oakland August 1972
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 09-22-2010 - 16:53
FUR Wrote:
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> Topper:
> The worlds greatest hoghead and professed expert
> on evrything pretaining to the RR industry.
> I would surmise his garnered experience in an F
> passenger unit was in the far left hand seat
> looking at the back of his eye lids.
> Not all F uits in passenger service had Ice
> breakers. They were either installed in Roseville
> or Oakland. The aasigned passenger power in the
> Southern District Motive Power pool did not
> require ice breakers as there is only one tunnel
> between LA and New Orleans. After 1971 Amtrak
> obtained all the serviceable passenger units and
> dispateched them as they saw fit. They were too
> smart to ask why those bars were on the roofs of
> the locomotives. When the D&RG took over the
> passenger service that you call the COSF it was
> amtrak and they furnished the power.
As usual, Mr. Lynch, you're confused. The train in question was not the COSF, nor was it an Amtrak train. Maybe WAF will be kind enough to explain it to you when he sees this. I would, but I'm sure you won't believe me.
By the way, how come you haven't been using your regular "JYL" moniker lately? I see you're having a lot of trouble spelling. Can't find the right keys on the keypad anymore, or has senility completely set in, so you've just been using any three letters now?
(For those curious, "FUR" has posted under various initials both here and on TO's over the last few years. He worked for the SP in the Engineering Department, then somehow was able to briefly be a division superintendent. Known as a first class @#$%& to all those who had to work under him, he likes to show his disdane for those of us who worked as the rank-and-file, and is the poster boy for the need for a Collective Bargaining Agreement. Personally, I always get a kick out of reading his rants, and look forward to future ones.)
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> Topper:
> The worlds greatest hoghead and professed expert
> on evrything pretaining to the RR industry.
> I would surmise his garnered experience in an F
> passenger unit was in the far left hand seat
> looking at the back of his eye lids.
> Not all F uits in passenger service had Ice
> breakers. They were either installed in Roseville
> or Oakland. The aasigned passenger power in the
> Southern District Motive Power pool did not
> require ice breakers as there is only one tunnel
> between LA and New Orleans. After 1971 Amtrak
> obtained all the serviceable passenger units and
> dispateched them as they saw fit. They were too
> smart to ask why those bars were on the roofs of
> the locomotives. When the D&RG took over the
> passenger service that you call the COSF it was
> amtrak and they furnished the power.
As usual, Mr. Lynch, you're confused. The train in question was not the COSF, nor was it an Amtrak train. Maybe WAF will be kind enough to explain it to you when he sees this. I would, but I'm sure you won't believe me.
By the way, how come you haven't been using your regular "JYL" moniker lately? I see you're having a lot of trouble spelling. Can't find the right keys on the keypad anymore, or has senility completely set in, so you've just been using any three letters now?
(For those curious, "FUR" has posted under various initials both here and on TO's over the last few years. He worked for the SP in the Engineering Department, then somehow was able to briefly be a division superintendent. Known as a first class @#$%& to all those who had to work under him, he likes to show his disdane for those of us who worked as the rank-and-file, and is the poster boy for the need for a Collective Bargaining Agreement. Personally, I always get a kick out of reading his rants, and look forward to future ones.)
