portable "step boxes"

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The Pullman in the photo is a N&W Budd-built 10-6.

--Rick Morrison
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  Subject: Re: portable "step boxes"


  Thank you for posting that delightful photograph, Herr Garner ! 


  There are elements in the photo which cry out for comment. 


  The young kid at right is a railfan.  He has just offered the Pullman Porter a crisp $1 bill for the step box.  The Porter, a good business man, has said:  Make it two bucks, kid, and you can take it home!  Do you think they will meet somewhere in the middle ? 



  The Flagman, at left, is thinking to himself:  The Timetable Special Instruction says that if a train is detained more than two minutes doing station work in automatic block territory, the Flagman must hoof it back and provide flag protection until recalled by whistle signal.  But the rear of my train is in Interlocking Limits, so that requirement does not apply.  Oh, and look at the Flagman's nice, Silver cap braid and buttons.  If the deal for the step-box does not go through, perhaps the kid can at least go home with some Silver buttons... 


  And just look at that lovely Tuscan Red paint on the Pullman, which is (probably) owned by another Tuscan-using railroad several hundred miles to the north.  Is N&W's flavor of Tuscan Red prettier, or not ...? 


  -- abram burnett 
  Federal Consolidated Omnibus Turnip Infrastructure Improvement Program 
   


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