Re: UP to begin installing inward-facing Cab Cams
Author: OTN
Date: 08-24-2013 - 10:19
OPRRMS Wrote:
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> Dr Zarkoff Wrote:
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> >
> > Story which circulated on the SP Western Div in
> > the 1980s:
> >
> > Lacey (of Lacey's raiders) to Colonel Sanders
> upon
> > answering all questions wrong after being
> stopped
> > in a test: "You're just about the dumbest son of
> a
> > @#$%& I've ever run into."
> > Col. Sanders: "Well, you're in deep s**t then
> > because I'm the best on the Division."
> > Colonel Sanders was so nick-named because he
> bore
> > a striking resemblance to the Colonel.
> > Good story, but unverified. What has been
> verified
> > is that Lacey insulted another engineer in a
> > similar fashion up in Oregon, and the guy
> decked
> > him. He was pulled out of service for two weeks
> > and then put back without further "discipline".
>
> The Doctor will probably remember this one (and
> the key player involved).
>
> During that same period of time, Mr. Lacy decided
> that every operating employee should be able to
> quote verbatim the definition of Restricted Speed,
> so during stop tests, each crew member would be
> asked to do it. Everybody failed, either
> intentionally or otherwise because no one's
> required to memorize and quote rules, except for
> one certain engineer who quoted it perfectly
> during a Restricted Speed stop test of a westbound
> train at West Sacramento using a fusee placed next
> to the right of way. Only problem was, the
> engineer ran by the fusee before getting the train
> stopped! Oh, well . . .
Lacy did not have any problem, The hoghead did.