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 Post subject: Re: Every Day Carry for T&E Crews
PostPosted: Sat Dec 30, 2017 8:59 am 

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Along with all the required Rules and Instructions. I added a can of lysol spray... and a roll of toilet paper.... you never know who or what used the "facilities" before you.


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 Post subject: Re: Every Day Carry for T&E Crews
PostPosted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 1:01 am 

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Let me see...

Steam grip:

1. Railroad timetable

2. Shop hammer ( for checking loose nuts and such )

3. ABTH rules

4. Steam locomotive repair manual ( just in case I needed to refer to something)

5. Spare gloves

6. Lantern

7. Spare shirt

8. Pocket watch ( worn)

9. Engineers card ( on person)

10. Brake club

11. Fusees and torpedoes

Diesel grip:

Items 1,3,5,6,7,8,9,10, 11;

Spare air brake handle;

Spare reverser

Fuses


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 Post subject: Re: Every Day Carry for T&E Crews
PostPosted: Tue Jan 02, 2018 1:54 pm 

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softwerkslex wrote:
Everybody made fun of me for wearing sunglasses on duty as fireman on the Strasburg in 1986, but I still have the phone numbers of girls who approached me at the platform. For a while, I dated a girl from the restaurant at the Red Caboose Hotel.

Beanery queens! Glory daze ...

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 Post subject: Re: Every Day Carry for T&E Crews
PostPosted: Tue Jan 02, 2018 2:10 pm 
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It's Torpedoes or anything like antique Dynamite which I heard they are. They will start sweating nitroglycerin and become increasingly unstable. https://youtu.be/l4a-X-basC4


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 Post subject: Re: Every Day Carry for T&E Crews
PostPosted: Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:42 am 

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RCD wrote:
It's Torpedoes or anything like antique Dynamite which I heard they are. They will start sweating nitroglycerin and become increasingly unstable. https://youtu.be/l4a-X-basC4


Still using your “laser ticket punch”?

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