Pizza Hut trackside delivery

[timkilbride]

Going through some pictures, I found this one. Got a laugh out of it. I remember making that call for the pizza, and actually did it a few times. I would make the call from the locomotive about 45 minutes from the crossing to insure enough time to make the pizza. Usually had to get the managers approval everytime.

 

[Stavro35]

What next, refueling an F-22 and hot wings from Domino's? lol.

 

[justinnmr]

I used to get Quizno's delivered to the produce department of the grocery store that I worked in lol.

 

[jerk]

When I worked the ambulance on special events, horse tracks and race tracks, I would call Domino's and they would deliver. Just told to look for the big ambulance and knock on the doors. Another crew would use the inverters and have chili and stuff.

Probably tech's would get fired today if they did that kind of stuff.

At least the pizza delivery guy wasn't stupid enough to park on the tracks. Gee boss/cops, the guy said at the railroad tracks...
AL

 

[timkilbride]

Sometimes I wouldn't tell the conductor that I ordered the pizza and he would come on the radio "Did you order a pizza again". I would reply, "Ya, send him up to the head end". Then the pizza guy would have to walk the train to get to the head end. I usually planned the delivery when we were going to be switching so I know I wouldn't miss him.

 

[crayon]

The receipt is missing most of the numbers on the credit card .. only the 7131 printed ...

 

[sjcscanner]

I used to get Quizno's delivered to the produce department of the grocery store that I worked in lol.

quizno's delivers?

 

[justinnmr]

lol, ya, some do.

 

[bpckty1]

Reminds me of the Eurail Pass days.

Although you couldn't order ahead, there was usually lots of window delivery service trackside. Open your window, and two or three vendors would offer alll kinds of foods and drinks. Now that's true Menu Roulette.

 

[Allan_Love_Jr]

LMFAO. That's cool.

 

[LEH]

bpckty1,

Yep, got some really good, but unusual pizza at the Stuttgart Bahnhof one day. They had cheese, zwiebel (onion), or tuna fish. I love tuna, hate onion, and the cheese sounded too plain.

The tuna fish pizza was actually pretty darn good. Wish I'd gotten two slices.

 

[RadioJonD]

Tennessee-Southern Railroad (a shortline based in Mount Plesent, Tennessee) will sometimes park their train in Florence, Alabama next to Staggs Grocery and run in for one of the best cheeseburgers in the region. Most of the time they get them to go.

 

[BigC801]

When i was on the river sub they would do that for us all the time, they were so used to us calling that they would just ask when we were going to be there lol.

 

[SloScanMan_01]

lunch run

This is hilarious. Often, the UP local in my area will be switching lumber cars on a siding(there are 3 lumberyards in the area that get rail imports from Canada) around noon, and they will have to wait for Amtrak or a through freight to pass, which can take up to 40 minutes, (northbounds have to climb a grade to the south, southbounds have to slow down going through a military base to the north,) so the conductor or brakeman will run up to the coffee shop 1 1/2 blocks away and get donuts and coffee, or if they're in the mood for something foreign, either the Mexican restaurant next to the coffee shop, or the sushi joint at the train station right next to the siding,always to go. (They always leave at least two people at the engine.) Sushi at 70 MPH! Yum!!!

 

[windchaser]

abt 10 or so yrs back i would see an engine or two and at times a small freight parked on the siding across from a 7-11 with a piza joint, i would always pull in so my grandson could go in and say hi to them, one of the crew gave him his hat and he still has it or should say whats left of it. thanks. windchaser usmm

 

[icom1020]

Why wait, cook on board!

Ok this is huge but worth the download.
http://nebraska-locksmith.com/articles/ManifoldM.pdf

Each model of EMD oven is different!

 

[burner50]

Awhile back we were sitting on college farm hill waiting for the spine dispatcher to take us and had papa johns delivered to the crossing (cant remember the name) just west of CPA189... The driver was so confused...

 

[wogggieee]

I've delivered pizzas to docks, golf courses, parks, pools, liquor stores, schools, a crippled guy who asks me to feed his dog chicken wings, but never to a train. That would actually be kind of a cool one. Though as the driver i wouldn't be too thrilled about having to walk the length of the train carrying a pizza. I hate going to apartments partially because i usually end up having to climb two or three floors of stairs, which isn't easy for someone with bad lungs

 

[gcgrotz]

The NS tracks cross the ex-CSX (now BBRR) tracks right in front of the Wild Wing Cafe. I've seen them many times go in and get a take out of wings or coffee while waiting for the diamond to clear. I think they phone ahead when they know they will be stopping.

If you see chicken wings on the ROW between Charlottesville and Culpeper now you know where they came from.

 

[kb2vxa]

Back in the good old days crews on the CNJ would pick up lunch on the fly behind the Beachwood (NJ) Diner like snatching orders from the tower, sort of only a bit slower. Too bad the CSX and NS guys can't do that passing Sherban's (South Plainfield) at 50MPH, it might spill the coffee. (;->) They had it easy at Reading Terminal in Philadelphia, Horn & Hardart was right next door and I really don't need to tell you their name for it. Well, NJT crews still run like hell to McDonald's in Port Jervis NY, it's a block away and pimple puss is hard pressed to fill a half dozen orders in 10 minutes but they manage to eat it somehow.

"If you see chicken wings on the RoW between Charlottesville and Culpeper now you know where they came from."

I've seen some awful stuff that once was food on Amtrak in Elizabeth NJ, the ones with feathers come from the local **** fights but God only knows about the rest. I'll bet the things wrapped in newspaper confuse him too or at least make him sick to his stomach. That's Elizabeth, the city that makes it's own cheese.