[RITSlist] Reminiscing on the Rock Island

Sat Oct 6 10:14:32 CDT 2007

Thanks guys.  Never having worked for a railroad, I never knew the 
official name for them.  Now we are all on the "same page", so to speak.

Jerry Berwald

At 11:30 PM 10/5/2007, Jeffery L Hergert wrote:
>Not only retired ones, I (and a few others) still wear them and they 
>are still in business.  They did sell off the winter style line. The 
>summer kind are called welder's caps.  One time checking into the 
>motel at Clinton a person asked if I was working for ADM there 
>because of my Kromer.  He was used to seeing the construction guys 
>wearing that style.
>
>The designer of the original, "Stormy" Kromer was a C&NW engineer 
>who wanted a better cap.
>
>Jeff
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>From: <mailto:lwandreessen at forbin.net>LaVerne Andreessen
>To: <mailto:glb141072 at mchsi.com>Gerald Berwald
>Cc: <mailto:ritslist at simpson.edu>ritslist at simpson.edu
>Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 11:16 PM
>Subject: Re: [RITSlist] Reminiscing on the Rock Island
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>Kromer was a long time cap manufacturer in Milwaukee.  They sold 
>both summer and winter caps, the latter having the distinctive pull 
>down ear flaps, made of wool, very warm, I have a couple of winter 
>models that I still wear on occasion, only a retired rail would 
>recognize a Kromer.  I understand the firm has gone out of biz but a 
>small firm in Uppper Michigan has taken over the cap biz.  lwa
>
>Gerald Berwald wrote:
>>Pete,
>>
>>Sorry for my ignorance; but, what is a KROMER?
>>
>>Jerry Berwald
>>
>>At 10:27 PM 10/5/2007, 
>><mailto:jpslhedgpeth at aol.com>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
>>>
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