Snippy wrote:

---

---

 Look Honey, a gay locomotive...!

Not that there is anything wrong with that....

Look at the fucking postage stamp mirrors that they recycled from the original.

Motherfuckers. That was supposed to have been resolved.

Snippy wrote:

---

Look at the fucking postage stamp mirrors that they recycled from the original.

Motherfuckers. That was supposed to have been resolved.

---

 That and where they mounted them. They should be rite at the edge of the sliding window. (between sliding window and fixed window).

Where they are now you haffta open sliding window and stick your head outside to look in mirror, or you have to look out thru fixed window to see mirror.

Who's the fawwkin brain surgeon who came up with that? 

This is an example mirror rite on front edge of sliding window. Just imagine it being mounted a couple feet forward of where it is now. 

 

-- Edited by Calvin on Thursday 13th of March 2014 01:31:10 PM

Only thing worse than those little square mirrors was the old GoneRail polished aluminum rectangle.

Snippy wrote:

---

The Cab Design Committee is failing horribly.

So many promises, so many lies.

---

They don't have to run them, they don't have to ride them, they probably don't even look out the window and watch them going by, they may be in a place where they don't see a locomotive for days.  And remember, they really, really hate you.

Hell, we've tried for 35 years to get them to turn them right side up. The postage stamp mirror belongs on top.

Green team on the Beach Train at Coleman Place, VA on the Wyoming Street crossing (Thanks, PhMB) is (L-R)Wild Bill Messick, "The Super Chief", C. W. "Clydesdale" Smith, and B. G. Williams -- "Cap'n Willy". Notice the reduced crew.

Cap'n Willy took one look at Lambert's Point and retired on June 3, 1982 taking his number one slot on the order selection seniority roster with him. It was a 20 Red Team to 1 Green Team roster, so the next guy was at number 20. Seven guys got OSL slots from Green Team. Green Team had 244 guys lumped at the bottom below Red Team guys hired only a couple months before the merger. And they called us Southern Pricks!

On the five man Red Team Yard job is (L-R) I. Dunno, Brakeman "Butterbutt", Donno Himeither, Engineer (shaking hands with Will Bill) Kent Tell, (background) Fireman R. G. "The General" Westmoreland.