Covered Hoppers

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Abram - remember Leas and McVitty in Salem - the meat processors?  At one time they shipped tankage in gons - even viler than your stinking stuff.  I knew a brakeman who was going over the tops of a cut in Roanoke Yard and jumped off the top of a hopper into what he thought was a gon loaded with sand.

WRONG!

The crew had to hose him off before anybody'd let him get close to them.

EdKing

   But it was a huge mud slick of that putrid-smelling ooze.  Both feet went out from under me and I took a painful landing directly on my derriere with a concussion sufficient to turn one's backbone into shards and fragments.  I have never seen so many stars in my life.  Then I discovered that the viscous mud had me virtually glued to the ground.  Fortunately we were on the way home, as I don't think I could have endured working an entire tour of duty coverd with that vile, stinking stuff !

  -- abram burnett


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