Nostalgia & History > Parking for crew callers only

Crew callers back in 1959 had their own parking place on Dunsmuir Ave. The "Klamath" sits in the depot during its 45min stop so passengers could get a hardy meal at Mottos while the mail was being worked. The Best Water on earth sign holder now resides at Railroad Park with a piece of yellow plastic stating opening times for the bar & restaurant. I have no idea what happened to the Best Water on Earth sign. The nice little park is now an asphalt parking lot and the mail train no longer exists. oh well progress is inevitable. This location is all crap now.


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Like your picture and the story that goes with it. The car front end belongs to a 1953 or 1954 Plymouth, I believe.
ALLEN

The way the sign is written almost makes it sound like crew callers specifically are prohibited from parking there. ;^)

The RPO sure has an interesting configuration.

Evan_Werkema Wrote:
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> The way the sign is written almost makes it sound
> like crew callers specifically are prohibited from
> parking there. ;^)


Only if you want to read it that way. That's why it has different sized lettering if it were that way all would be bold lettering.

Is this still early enough that the crew caller would physically have to go find members of the crew who did not have telephones? Perhaps the railway wanted to have a designated parking spot to save the caller time when they returned?

Jim