Re: [CBQ] Railroad operations

["John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>]

After I responded to Leo's e-mail, a few more examples came to mind. The 
reclamation plant at Eola is good example of how they recycled old equipment. 
The Q operated grain elevators at various points and the stockyard at 
Montgomery was essentially a large scale livestock operation complete with feed 
mill. They had their own dump truck which was used to haul coal to the general 
office building. They printed their own stationary. And while the legal 
department is one place they employed outside help, there was an army of staff 
lawyers. They also had a quasi-legal department, the claims department. I read 
recently that the reason that the railroads employed non-lawyers as claim 
agents is that they didn't want claim agents to be bound by the legal code of 
ethics. Can you imagine, they didn't want them to be as ethical as lawyers! 
Before anybody starts, I'm a retired lawyer. The Q and several other railroads 
also had their own airplanes.













      

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