Doghouse on Link recording

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Thu Apr 30 08:53:26 EDT 2020


On 4/30/2020 7:56 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:

> I often remember the mental image on the Link recording of the train 
> on the cold morning where he describes the steam and smoke hanging in 
> place in the air over a curve, and the strikingly strong odor of the 
> head brakeman’s cigar smoke coming back from the doghouse.
Neill,
     I think you will find that the brakeman was riding in the caboose, 
not the doghouse. Go back and listen closer to Mr. Link's comments where 
he says that the wind is blowing "from me to him". Apparently a window 
was cracked and "Bernoulli's Principle" did the rest.

Jimmy Lisle



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