Re: passenger car movement
Author: Dean
Date: 06-28-2012 - 16:47
rolland meyers Wrote:
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> Dick~
> They were inspected by the U.P. at the Mt Shasta
> Jct. (CA) prior to being picked up by the U.P.
> Then they were hauled over the Cascades all the
> way to Portland before being B.O.'d. I can't help
> but wonder if some new U.P. recruit car inspector
> was "overwhelmed" by the years on these old heavy
> weights and figured there "had to be something
> wrong with them?"
> But they were inspected and passed that inspection
> before the U.P. picked them up at Mt. Shasta.
> I have no idea of the status as of this time
> because U.P. was incommunicative after they were
> bad ordered. They may have said a small prayer
> over them, cut them out and buried them on a RIP
> track in the boonies for all I know. I do know
> that they will probably never make it to Idaho in
> time.
> Thanks
> Rolland Meyers
I think it might be hard for them to make it on time since they were supposed to be there yesterday.