Crew packs are pretty nifty, albeit extremely wasteful, things.

Far too often, people will use the wet wipes only to throw the rest of the package away... or just stuff it behind the conductor's emergency brake valve with 3 others until someone eventually throws them all away.

I've had similar experiences in the mid-1980's. I recall a blazing hot day in downtown Calgary, Alberta watching the westbound 'Canadian' pass through the wash racks before heading out onto the mainline on its journey to Vancouver and points west. The engineer tossed down an ice cold can of CP Rail water as he was passing by. Tasted gross but boy was it SO cold!

Had crews toss me cans of water on a couple of other occasions on blistering hot days. I recall walking from Keith Yard (MP9.6 Laggan Subdivision) to Bearspaw (MP14) and back in 30C temps as a teenager in summer 1985. I was dying of thirst when a passing crewmember on an eastbound train tossed me an ice cold can of water. I lucked out on the trip back when a signal maintainer on a speeder gave me a ride.

>>5463
Canadians still have disgusting and unique ways of giving out water. They still have those awful plastic cups with the foil tops that taste like shit that sneak down into the US every now and then.

>>5464
We don't want to give away the secret of how good our water actually is

>>5464
Those fucking packs of water have been around since the 70s at least. There must be some special factory making them just for railway use because I've never seen them sold anywhere, even wholesale restaurant supply places.

>>5478
Our school cafeteria used to sell juice in those containers. So whoever made those is probably making the waters too.

As someone who worked in the industry for over 30 years. I've gotta say, this is one of the dumber obsessions I've seen. The company always cheaper out on that junk. Like you seriously want some garbage paper rag and some shitty water?

>>5460
Also lol, wtf is that spot on the napkin? Looks like shit bro.

>>5699
Yeah I was wondering what that was on the napkin too which confused me since the package was pretty well sealed.