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- From: zephyr@cory.Berkeley.EDU (COIFMAN)
- Subject: Re: Vandalism and stone throwing
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.225635.16528@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:56:35 GMT
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- One day, I was listening to a tale from a Milwaukee (now Soo)
- conductor. He had been working this run with the same crew for a couple
- of years. It was about twenty mile out, switch and come back. Each time
- they went on the run, no matter what time of day, when they passed a
- particular stretch, there would be these two kids out there throwing
- rocks at the train.
- Well, one day, they were tooling along and as they aproched the area
- with the kids, the engineer started to accelerate. But the kids were
- nowhere to be found. So the conductor says, "Stop the train, stop the
- train." The engineer thought he was crazy, but went along with it. They
- grabbed every single last torpedo they could find in the engine and
- caboose and laid them end to end on the track behind the train. Then,
- they climbed back abord the train and continued on to do their
- switching.
- On the return trip, they slowed down and laid on the horn, just to make
- sure that the kids would be there. Now mind you, they were in an SW1200
- or similar small switcher with no short hood and were running cab
- forward.
- They round a curve, and there on an over pass are the two kids. One of
- them has a cinder block held high above his head just waiting for the
- right moment. A moment that did not come. Right before the train hit the
- row of torpedos laid out on the rail, the conductor grabbed his trusty
- broom, threw open the cab door and made like he was holding a shotgun.
- The cinder block fell and hit a much better target than the train, but
- needless to say, they never had any problems from those kids anymore.
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- r++-----------,---,-------------. Benn Coifman
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