Ray and Leo
My dad now retired from the postoffice use to work up to 18 hours a day
delivering a walking route when I was a kid. Use to be two deliveries a day for
almost the whole month of Dec. in Aurora. Note that was when the mailman walked
a route. We had Waycars on trains and 4 to 5 man crew who also got there
exercise by walking not in a gym.
On the Suburban Trains you would also see a car going to or from the shops in
Aurora back to 14th street coachyard.
SJH
Ray Bedard wrote:
> LEO,
>
> Berwyn got lots of mail! Even as a kid, I was impressed that during the
> Christmas holidays, our mailman made 2 trips a day to our home, on 33rd and
> East Ave. One in the morning and one in the afternoon. I called my brother,
> and he thinks we even an a delivery after 6PM on some days, that makes for a
> 3rd. delivery. So you see, Berwyn is WAS big town. And to have a siding
> showed the world how important we were, not every site had a siding.
>
> I remember the siding and the REA trucks parked next to the box car. As a
> teenager, I worked at a gas station on East Ave. and the Q main line that
> had the maintenance contract for REA. I never took photos.
>
> Ray Bedard
> San Jose CA
>
> >From: qutlx1@a...
> >Reply-To: BRHSlist@egroups.com
> >To: brhslist@egroups.com
> >Subject: [BRHSlist] Mail & express
> >Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 21:56:28 EDT
> >
> >Russ Repetto used to tell stories (lots of them) but these were about
> >picking
> >up a "jeep" full of Pepperidge Farm bread off the backtrack at Downers on
> >the
> >last east bound dinkie.Does anybody have info on where the bread was
> >headed?
> >Ed Metz used to also tell lots of stories. One of his was about setting out
> >a
> >car of storage mail on the stub trk at Berwyn each morning on the first
> >west
> >bound dinkie.
> >How much mail could Berwyn get?
> >And of course we all know about the infamous "wheel car" that operated on
> >the
> >last dinkie hauling wheels from Aurora to the wheel bay at 14th st. The
> >crew
> >received wayfreight pay instead of passenger rate for dragging that car
> >around.
> >I was wondering if anyone knows which trains hauled the REA cars from Chgo
> >to
> >the Aurora REA building?
> >What job hauled the "jeeps" from Kable Bros that the Oregon Turn brought to
> >Aurora?
> >Leo
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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