Mark Meoff Wrote:
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> The story of Billy Goat Run..
>
> One day Buckethead Bill was working the Zephyr and
> saw some goats on the tracks near Newcastle. Being
> a guy that looked at life with the bucket half
> full, he decided to call the dispatcher to notify
> him that there was livestock on the track and that
> other trains should be warned.
>
> The radio traffic went like this...
>
> Bill: Dispatcher, there's several goats heading
> east on the westbound track. And I don't mean the
> switching kind, I mean the bah-bah-bah kind (as he
> said with a shat eating grin on his face).
>
> Dispatcher: Copy that, I'll call the hearder.
>
>
> No goats were harmed in the telling of this story.

Here's the way I herd, er... I mean, heard it :

We were coming down #1 track just above the tunnel at Newcastle, and there were some goats trotting up the #2 track. So Billy grabs the radio and calls the Mtn Dspr: "There're goats on the right of way, the baaa kind, but they're not MU". After a perfect two beat pause, the Mtn Dspr answered, "I'll call the herder". That area of #2 track was called Billy Goat Run thereafter. It's a true story, believe it or not. Ray would needle Billy on the radio, and Jeff said Billy would go: "He's just a SHEEPHERDER, a SHEEPHERDER". Pete always called him "the Bucketeer". Toward the end we took to calling him "The Engineer Formerly Known as Buckethead"

The names have not been changed to protect the innocent.