[RITSlist] Reminiscing on the Rock Island

[Gerald Berwald]

Pete,

Sorry for my ignorance; but, what is a KROMER?

Jerry Berwald

At 10:27 PM 10/5/2007, jpslhedgpeth at aol.com wrote:
>Any readers of REMINISCE MAGAZINE out there.
>
>Most recent issue just received today has an interesting Rock Island 
>picture on page 25.
>
>No location given, but the picture shows a trainman in a passenger 
>uniform sans the regulation "stovepipe" hat, but wearing the classic 
>KROMER and work gloves.  He along with some school kids and, I 
>assume their teacher going for a ride per the caption.
>
>Another man in coveralls is standing in the doorway of what, at 
>first glance appears to be a baggage car, but upon closer inspection 
>it's either the 750 or 751 pre second prime mover, still being 
>used  as a part baggage car.
>
>The fact that the brakeman is wearing work gloves and a KROMER 
>rather than the regulation uniform hat tells me that he's a train 
>baggageman as well as a brakeman and the run is perhaps between 
>Limon and Colorado Springs, or perhaps on the Bellville-KC portion 
>of the run where the head brakeman might be called upon to perform 
>baggage handling duties.
>
>I would assume that the man standing in the doorway is the 
>engineer...he's also wearing a KROMER.
>
>If I knew how to scan I'd try to put this one out on the list
>
>The caption reads...in part.   "When my dad was a brakeman/conductor 
>for the Rock Island railroad he had to wear a uniform.  ....My uncle 
>Pete Geil was an engineer for the Rock Island lines....the girl in 
>the middle is Nancy Smith, a grandniece of my dad's.   Photo 
>submitted by Faye Dawald Missoula, Montana.
>
>This ought to stir up some comment.
>
>Pete
>
>----------
>Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free 
><http://o.aolcdn.com/cdn.webmail.aol.com/mailtour/aol/en-us/index.htm?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000970>AOL 
>Mail!
>
>----------
>
><https://storm.simpson.edu/canit/b.php?i=12119529&m=d1153442d1b7&c=s>Spam
><https://storm.simpson.edu/canit/b.php?i=12119529&m=d1153442d1b7&c=n>Not spam
><https://storm.simpson.edu/canit/b.php?i=12119529&m=d1153442d1b7&c=f>Forget 
>previous vote
>_______________________________________________
>ritslist mailing list
>ritslist at thunder.simpson.edu
>https://thunder.simpson.edu/mailman/listinfo/ritslist
>
>No virus found in this incoming message.
>Checked by AVG Free Edition.
>Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.1/1051 - Release Date: 
>10/5/2007 12:27 PM


-- 
BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS
------------------------------------------------------

NOTE: This message was trained as non-spam.  If this is wrong,
please correct the training as soon as possible.

Teach CanIt if this mail (ID 12120436) is spam:
Spam:        https://storm.simpson.edu/canit/b.php?i=12120436&m=54bc402bced1&c=s
Not spam:    https://storm.simpson.edu/canit/b.php?i=12120436&m=54bc402bced1&c=n
Forget vote: https://storm.simpson.edu/canit/b.php?i=12120436&m=54bc402bced1&c=f
------------------------------------------------------
END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://thunder.simpson.edu/pipermail/ritslist/attachments/20071005/f170eda6/attachment.html