Subj : Routing files
To   : Steve Quarrella
From : Mike Luther
Date : Fri Jan 11 2002 01:52 am

Oh!  The File Railroad game!  Grin!

SQ> I just need to put
SQ> the right combination of verbs and systems together (I
SQ> don't want everybody routing files through that
SQ> systems...it'll be hell!).

Used to be that all railroads running through Texas had to have the name Texas
in them!  So long ago the Southern Pacific was the Texas and New Orleans
(T&NO), the Missouri Pacific was the Houston and Texas Central (H&TC) - more
affectionally known as the "Mop."

Even byt the late 1940's all the locomotives and cabooses rolling through
College Station here had the T&NO and H&TC still on them in tiny letters, as
well as the big parent line names in the big letters on them!

Earlier than that, little lines were all around Houston as well.  There was the
Texas Western and Beaumont, which the good folks got to callin the "Toot
Whistle and Bump."  And there was also the the one that had a deadlock on all
the freight shipped around Houston, the pest problem yard and terminal
extension Houston and East-West Texas!  It was NEVER on time and you could
NEVER figure out which carload of stuff was where, when!

So the pet name it became over the routing issue was the:

     "Hell Either Way Taken"

Grin ..


--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

Mike @ 1:117/3001

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