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Re: Traffic Split

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Subject: Re: Traffic Split
From: wulrich@a...
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 18:23:30 -0000
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--- In BRHSlist@y..., amtrak347@a... wrote:
>
> 
> Comment on the 1964 Award 282 - when I became RFof E @ Pasco, WA in 
1979, I 
> found it interesting to note that the GN and the SP&S when they 
"furloughed" 
> their firemen, they hired all of them back, the next day! All 
rosters 
> (except the "Q's" Chicago Division) showed no firemen hired between 
1954 and 1964.


as a 282 fireman the Q kept those firemen with more than 2 years 
seniority but less than ten years senority on the division i worked 
on. severed off only those with less than 2 years rights on both ends 
of the division. iirc, 25 total were severed, 13 on one end 12 on the 
other. imagine it varied division to division.



> The NP firemen fared about the same as the CB&Q firemen, with 
> "careful" hiring, so as not to overly protect too many employees.
> Nepotism in railroading was a tradition, and no RR practiced it 
better than the SP&S 
> and GN (in that order).



seems like all railroads/divisions were that way, as a borrowed man 
you had to watch what you said about anyone until you got it all 
figured out who belonged to who. brothers, sons, sons-in-law, step-
sons, cousins...... sometimes the whole family tree would be 
there. <grin>



> Interesting to find high ranking officials with relatives in 
the "ranks" and cause for concern in disciplinary matters. 
> Enough of this epistle.
> 
> RC
>

warren 



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