[CBQ] Re: C&S Trains #29 and #30

["Jonathan Harris" <jonathanharris@earthlink.net>]

Wonder whether poor Stone got his chops up, or the company gave him the sack.

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Robert munshower <bearmtnbob@...> wrote:
>
>April 6, 1917 
> Â ...
> RC Raines: Will you investigate + advise the cause for the two firemen not 
> being at where they could be found to work Engine #325? We had to use Stone 
> (new fireman) who could not do the work. Put Green on the engine at mp. 15 as 
> #29 is being badly delayed.
> Â 

> April 7, 1917 Chugwater - #29 Delayed at Cheyenne waiting on UP connection, 
> 12 minutes + additional 10 minutes loading US mails. Departed 10:37 p.m. 
> Delayed 10 minutes for meet with #32, 30 minutes running time lost due to low 
> steam on eng. #325/641 cause of new fireman D. Stone. Engine journal running 
> hot into Iron Mountain. #29 has pullman MARQUISE (set out at Billings) 
> OBERLIN (set out at Casper) ALGARDI (set out at Billings). CB&Q diner #123, 
> C&S coach #548, C&S chair car #503, C&S baggage # 214, CB&Q mail 1920, 
> Brakeman - Knox, Flagman - Ball, Porter D.H. Williams. Additional 10 mins 
> lost at Cheyenne for connection, five minutes load/unload mail (mail delays 
> were often caused by having to respot the train).
> Â 
>



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