A little humor.
Yes, I know-very little.
Have you been looking at some GE Super 7, and early Dash 8 locomotives? Those always reminded me of Quasimodo.
Chris
Denver, CO
He was one depressed guy - he tried all his life and never made it to full modo…[:)]
If anyone knows, chime right in! [:P]
Do you think he ever worked in a hump yard?
He really wanted to be a full modo and play under the Golden Dome and salute Touchdown Jesus.
He was my boss. or was that Frankenstein??
Did you do a Google?
I only know that when he retired his brother applied for the position.
At the interview they noted that he didn’t have any arms and was therefore unqualified.
He explained and demonstrated that he could ring the bell by striking it with his forehead.
One winter day, a year and a half or so after the successful interview, the bell tower floor was coated with ice.
On his run toward the bell Q’s brother slipped and tumbled to the street below, with fatal consequences.
A crowd gathered and none in the assembly was able to identify the victim.
One man stepped forward and said “I sure can’t place the name but by gawd that face rings a bell.”
Dave (dwRavenstar)
The way I heard this story was Quasimodo approached the Archbishop of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris with a request for better food, a softer mattres, more money, and two weeks of vacation.
The Archbishop told Quasimodo he would take it under advisement, and would let hinm know in a few weeks.
After two weeks the Archbishop told Quasimodo he could give him more money, better food, and a new mattress, buthe (Quasimodo)would hve to get a substitute to ring the cathedral’s chimes.
Quasimodo went down the steps of the cathedral, and he found a homeless person who usually hung out around the cathedral, and he asked him whether he wanted a temporary job. The homeless person said. “yes, what do I have to do?”
Quasimodo took the homeless person up to thebelfry, and he told him how to ring the bells. He told him first he had to pu***he bells away with his hands, then he had to duck as they returned, and kick them back. He also had to duck again as the bells returned.
Quasimodo suggested the homeless person try to ring the chimes. He pushed the chimes away, but the homeless person forgot to duck as the bells returned; they hit him in the face, knocking him unconscious, and causing to fall to the steps of the Cathedral. A crowd quickly gathered, and Quasimodo ran to the scene. A man asked Quasimodo if he could identify the homeless person. Quasimodo told him he couldn’t identify him, but his face sure rings a bell.
Didn’t he play hunchback for Notre Dame?
Only on short yardage situations.This thread turned out pretty good.
How come GP30s have not come up ?