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- From: wbrill@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Warren Brill)
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:41:26 GMT
- Subject: Re: Re: Cows'n'Trains (was Cow Catchers)
- Message-ID: <122200181@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
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- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- References: <1992Nov13.072137.16824@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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- In rec.railroad, zephyr@cory.Berkeley.EDU (COIFMAN) writes:
-
- > In article <17412@mindlink.bc.ca> Steve_Hooper@mindlink.bc.ca (Steve Hooper) writes:
- > >
- > [abridged version]
- > [MORE abridged version]
- >
- > Ah, in the good old days of steam engines and cattle on the track. Seventy
- > years ago, it seemed that the only animals that trains ever struck were
- > prize wining beasts. Or so the farmer claimed. This problem was so big
- > that the railroads employed crak lawyers to keep from paying huge
- ^^^^
- So, the "Amtrack/Amtrak" dichotomy
- has taken over! When the cra(c)k
- lawyers won a court case, did they
- go home and hit the sak?
- Sorry, couldn't resist :-) :-)
-
- > settlements.
- >
- > An aside, during WW2, Soo Line had a couple of female employees at
- > their Shorham yard (a large yard and engine facility). The managers
- > felt that the railroads were no place for women and these poor girls
- > were often found with scrapers removing heavilly baked animal remains
- > off of steam engines.
- >
- >
- >
- > r++-----------,---,-------------. Benn Coifman
- > /~____________/ ""|| @ | zephyr@cory.berkeley.edu
- > / o-o (*) (*) o : o-o-o o-o-o zephyr@robotics.berkeley.edu
- >
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