Comments for No Malarchy- Just Images http://billoneal.com/wordpress Bill O'Neal's Photoblog Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:36:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on Railroad Employees by Bill http://billoneal.com/wordpress/?p=714&cpage=1#comment-753 Bill Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:36:58 +0000 http://billoneal.com/wordpress/?p=714#comment-753 Yes, that's Bill Chaplik back when he was a clerk and I was the dispatcher. Odd, he left English teaching to work on the railroad and I did the opposite. I did not meet Clarke until shortly after he lost the weight, but I heard he was a big guy for some time. I hired when Bill Young was division operator and left in 1982. I still see some of the "old timers" now again. Yes, that’s Bill Chaplik back when he was a clerk and I was the dispatcher. Odd, he left English teaching to work on the railroad and I did the opposite. I did not meet Clarke until shortly after he lost the weight, but I heard he was a big guy for some time. I hired when Bill Young was division operator and left in 1982. I still see some of the “old timers” now again.

]]> Comment on Railroad Employees by Andis Cernoks http://billoneal.com/wordpress/?p=714&cpage=1#comment-752 Andis Cernoks Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:56:36 +0000 http://billoneal.com/wordpress/?p=714#comment-752 WOW! I came across these pix by accident, and it was great to finally match a face to names I had only heard of, or seen on a roster, or been yelled at by on the phone . Of course, EVERYONE knew GOD a/k/a W.C. Young, who was my union rep for a while. If I remember the story correctly, George Opie could throw the levers at JO with his feet! (according to Frank Cruise.) I believe image 53 to be Bill Chaplik--variously Rules Examiner, Division Operator, etc. I wish I could have seen Clarke Hampe when he was fat and smoked cigars. I was an Operator from 1985-1994, and a Dispatcher until 2001. I spent most of my career with Amtrak looking forward to being able to quit, and the next nine years at NY City Transit wishing I had never left. WOW! I came across these pix by accident, and it was great to finally match a face to names I had only heard of, or seen on a roster, or been yelled at by on the phone . Of course, EVERYONE knew GOD a/k/a W.C. Young, who was my union rep for a while. If I remember the story correctly, George Opie could throw the levers at JO with his feet! (according to Frank Cruise.) I believe image 53 to be Bill Chaplik–variously Rules Examiner, Division Operator, etc. I wish I could have seen Clarke Hampe when he was fat and smoked cigars.

I was an Operator from 1985-1994, and a Dispatcher until 2001. I spent most of my career with Amtrak looking forward to being able to quit, and the next nine years at NY City Transit wishing I had never left.

]]> Comment on Mershon Family Reunion by Jim Mershon http://billoneal.com/wordpress/?p=1690&cpage=1#comment-751 Jim Mershon Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:09:53 +0000 http://billoneal.com/wordpress/?p=1690#comment-751 Thanks for these pictures. In due time, they will be on the Mershon Website. Jim Thanks for these pictures. In due time, they will be on the Mershon Website.

Jim

]]> Comment on Mershon Family Reunion by Harrison Hunt http://billoneal.com/wordpress/?p=1690&cpage=1#comment-742 Harrison Hunt Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:13:57 +0000 http://billoneal.com/wordpress/?p=1690#comment-742 Nice pix, Bill! Thanks for taking them. Good meeting you both Harrison & Linda Hunt Nice pix, Bill! Thanks for taking them.

Good meeting you both

Harrison & Linda Hunt

]]> Comment on Run for your life! by Lauren O'Neal http://billoneal.com/wordpress/?p=1352&cpage=1#comment-178 Lauren O'Neal Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:40:49 +0000 http://billoneal.com/wordpress/?p=1352#comment-178 The train wasn't moving, thank God! The train wasn’t moving, thank God!

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