Here we go!
Thanks guys for clearing up "Murphy"! However, if his name was Edward A., who was the "Shaun" mentioned in the other thread?
The bootleg McCoy is a new one to me! I got the engineer version from a Discovery-Channel docu about the first trains in the US. McCoy being a black man worked of course only in the northern part of the states, but supposedly his product reached all the way south! Apparently most operators were not aware of this fact. It seems he was a technical genius all along with plenty of innovations in the railroad field!
If a customer did not get the "Real McCoy" the human oiler had to stand by all the time in case the copy failed the service! I gues this was a sort of lint oiler system....
Thanks again!
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