OPRRMS Wrote:
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> 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.


Well, I was close. Been a while since I heard this legend.