RE: (erielack) AS - 616

["Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_lucent.com>]

Walt,

	A great shot, with a lot of character! Keep posting 'em! :)

	- Paul




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> Local_at_Homer_NY.jpg (image/jpeg, 109768 bytes)
> 
> I wish I could do as good with the PC as with the 
> locomotives........My uncle 
> gave me an Argus C-3 ayear or 2 after I hired out, first time 
> I'd SEEN a 35 
> mm camera.I used to put it in my grip. I realize now that I 
> didn't know about 
> how to compose a foto, but I was 'on the spot' for some rare 
> stuff. I'll try 
> & send one as an attachment. It's a foto of tne Cortland 
> local in the siding 
> at Homer, NY waiting for BS 51 to go by on the former DL&W 
> Syracuse Division. 
>      We're in the siding & I got on the ground to record 
> events. I took a 4 
> shot series, but this one's the middle shot & shows our 
> engine with Norm 
> Orcutt (chewtobacco) in the cab looking on. As BS51 
> approaches, Bill Smith, 
> the headman, is on the ground to give the runby inspection. The Homer 
> passenger station is in the background as well as a typical DL&W 
> building...the gateman's shanty on a pillar at the left of 
> the road crossing. 
> Across the tracks & on the other side of the crossing is the 
> old freight 
> station. At this point in time, (mid-60s) the mainline from 
> Cortland to Homer 
> was double tracked.
>        Orcutt (chewtobacco) was a good engineer but loved his plug of 
> tobacco. I was looking over the engine before leaving one day 
> & found a note 
> from the shop guys,"HEY NORM, WATCH THE TOBACCO JUICE". 
> Several times, I'd 
> find my hand sticking to the automatic brake or the throttle. 
> Regards,
>  Walt Smith
> 

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