Track Walker

[snowyday]

The newly-hired trackwalker discovered a bad washout on his section

and notified the dispatcher.

The dispatcher, in turn, put out a five-mile-an-hour “slow order†and

then told the trackwalker to stay at his post.

There was a train approaching, he said, and he wanted the trackwalker

to check the roadbed as the train passed over it and also see how the

train lived up to the restricting order.

As soon as the train passed, the trackwalker called in: “Track’s okay,â€

he informed the dispatcher. “And as for that slow order, the engineer

lived up to it but the caboose was going too darn fast!â€

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snowyday