[PRCo] Re: Interurbans and Animals

[Dennis Fred Cramer]

The best one I experienced first hand was a trip from Chama to Antonito on 
the Cumbres & Toltec.  We were high above the Toltec Gorge when some free 
range cattle were standing on the track ahead of the locomotive.  The 
whistle and bell did nothing to move them, so the fireman grabbed a handful 
of coal, climbed out to the front of the locomotive and threw lumps of coal 
as we crept closer.  The coal did the trick.  Cattle are very much like 
cats---they do what they want to do, when they want to do it and of their 
own volition. (other than being pelted by a fireman hanging on to the front 
of a multi ton locomotive)

Dennis F. Cramer
      Trombone