Re: (erielack) Sad EL story & funny Tri-Rail

[Don Kern <doubletrack_@_comcast.net>]

LOL

WSmith5957_@_aol.com wrote:

>  I was just wrapping up a couple EL trainsheets to send out when I ran across
> a couple sheets of paper in the closet with them. they were the trainoff
> orders for #s 5 & 6which I sent with the sheets & a badly faded consist sheet
> for # 15 from Scranton to the following offices as
> follows.......................................Scranton, Pa 5-8-69
>
> TEM CD
> GWK MJF YA
> FRG QD
> EJR V
>
> NO 15 933  2 CARS
>
> EL 314 BAGG ELMIRA
> EL 1324 CCH BFLO
>
> HJF 0056
>
> For explanation, QD is Binghamton uptown...I don't know the addressee, CD
> also Bing (I think), V is Hornell & EJR is E. J. Robisch, whom I hadn't heard
> of since I left the Mahoning Division where he was Supt in 1960-61. the 933
> is an Alco RS3.
>
> Now for a Tri-Rail funny.....Before wrapping the trainsheets, I was in the
> kitchen having some coffee & OREO cookies & it immediately reminded me of a
> funny event at the Tri-Rail breakroom in West Palm Beach.
>       I had just finished a roundtrip to Miami & back & had gotten a 3-row
> package of OREOs from my locker. I got a cup of coffee & was eating cookies &
> drinking my coffee when the next crew came on duty. They would take the
> equipment I'd just brought in. The engineer and conductor sat down at the
> table & we discussed the equipment & trainorders when the engineer asked if
> he could have a cookie or 2, his conductor followed suit (These 2 guys were
> notorious for mooching food off other people - traincrews or mechanical
> dept.). I was feeling generous and said "yeah, go ahead." MUNCH, MUNCH,
> GOBBLE, GOBBLE. As I watched them attack the cookies, my brain sent me a
> signal....'how did the cookies get opened?'. The package was brand new and I
> didn't remember using my penknife to slice it open as was my usual practice.
> I slurped my coffee and observed the C&E of P-624 eating OREOs. I was still
> thinking'How did it get opened???I didn't use my penknife...'
>        Still looking at the cookie package, I realized that the top wasn't
> slit evenly as the penknife would have done but was ripped and CHEWED???
> Looking closer, I saw that the center row of cookies had been nibbled at the
> top all the way up the row as well as partway on the lefthand row of cookies
> - just nibbled at the top. All this time my fellow employees downed cookie
> after cookie. Suddenly, I knew the rats from the nearby hotel kitchen
> dumpster had gotten in.
>        What to do???? The greedheads were still munching away & why spoil
> things for them? I got up to leave..."You guys take them with you on the trip
> South." MUNCH, MUNCH, MUNCH.
> Regards,
> Walt Smith

------------------------------