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09/07/2000  3:59:00 PM

Bob Montbriand

Another bit of Nixon trivia. I enrolled at Gale Institute in Minneapolis in  1948 to learn how to get a job as an agent/telegrapher for a railroad. My  rules instructor was Ron Nixon - he had the walls of his class room covered  with pictures of train wrecks. He pointed out that each picture depicted  either 1. a rules violation, or 2. a situation which led to a change in the  rules. In all my years with the NP and the successor railroads I never met  anyone who was more knowledgeable on the consolidated book of rules than Ron.  photographs photos operating rules  Compiler  C Frissell