[HBP] Was H. Beam Piper a railroad bull? Tim (12 Aug 2025 15:02 UTC)
Re: [HBP] Was H. Beam Piper a railroad bull? David Eden (12 Aug 2025 16:05 UTC)
Re: [HBP] Was H. Beam Piper a railroad bull? Tom Rogers (12 Aug 2025 23:40 UTC)

Re: [HBP] Was H. Beam Piper a railroad bull? David Eden 12 Aug 2025 15:56 UTC

I don't recall that term, but I'm pretty sure that John Carr's
biography mentions that, as part of his job, Piper sometimes had to
evict trespassers from the railway property. It's possible that I may
have heard John mention this in person at the Irregular's Muster in
2019.

On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM Tim - pzmcgwire at yahoo.com (via
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> I've heard the pejorative term railroad bull used to describe railroad policemen. Would Piper have been consider a railroad bull among whose responsibiltiies would have been rousting stowaways off of trains?
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