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Does anyone ever remember seeing anything like this?  I don't.

Air brakes was the first reason trainmen didn't have to "decorate the tops" to apply brakes, especially as further improvements came along, like retainers (stopping the train, setting retainer valves on selected or all cars so that there was some air applying brakes).  And with time, the higher cars became too high for a trainman to even flaten himself down on a roof going under bridges and into tunnels.  Higher speeds also made it less safe.  Running boards on engines were common into the diesel switcher era but by the mid 60's had pretty much dissappeared.



Lifted from a TRAINS magazine forum.

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I remember........

That is how we railroaded back then.......

Sometimes after a 16 hour run of shoveling coal, Elvis would pick me up at the Memphis roundhouse for beers so he could review the latest lyrics I'd written for him.......

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I remember the Shack wantin ta "Highball in the Yard"!!

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FMB wrote:

I remember........

That is how we railroaded back then.......

Sometimes after a 16 hour run of shoveling coal, Elvis would pick me up at the Memphis roundhouse for beers so he could review the latest lyrics I'd written for him.......



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Oh my...Billy's older'n Uke! Who'da thunk it?

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Uke wrote:

Oh my...Billy's older'n Uke! Who'da thunk it?




We'll have to cut you in half and count the rings.



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Yikes! That sounds painful. What's in it for me?

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The brakemen still ride the tops here.

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Snippy wrote:

The brakemen still ride the tops here.




I got up on top of a boxcar exactly one time, to pass signals, and I didn't think much of it.  Since I was a fireman, I didn't really have to be up there but in the interests of getting the work done, I did it.

I'm betting those brakemen get pretty dirty riding the tops, Snippy.



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Let me guess, FMB. Did you hear those stories secondhand? Were those the kind of stories actually told?

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Cy Valley wrote:

Let me guess, FMB. Did you hear those stories secondhand? Were those the kind of stories actually told?




Curses....... caught in the act

I DID hear that story 2nd hand....... but I know it's true cuz the guy who told me is a Deputized U.S. Marshall.......



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Curses....... caught in the act

I DID hear that story 2nd hand....... but I know it's true cuz the guy who told me is a Deputized U.S. Marshall.......



I knew it, I knew it, I knew it.  I sure hope that guy writes a book now that he's got a little time on his hands.  It'll be a bestseller for sure.



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