Pete
Amen to that. Forty years ago some employees went
months without ever seeing an offical and the system
worked really well! Today, people who don't know a cut
lever from a tie plate tell working railroaders every
switch move to make.
John D. Mitchell, Jr.
--- PSHedgpeth@a... wrote:
> Leo
>
> Thanks re your elucidation on the step on-step off
> arrangement. I don't
> recall seeing the treatise a year ago, so appreciate
> your doing it again.
>
> What you said would exactly match the St. Joe
> arrangement. I don't know for
> sure, but apparently Kansas City was the originating
> terminal and final
> terminal for the Lincoln, Omaha, St. Joe KC
> trains...20-21, 26-27, 22-23,
> 41-42,43-44. The arrangement would have worked the
> same way. Crews would
> step on at St. Joe and work to KC and then have a
> quick turn back rather than
> deadheading from St. Joe to KC then working back,
> and working to KC and
> deadheading back to St. Joe the crew's home
> terminal.
>
> I always understood that this was an "official"
> arrangement, but apparently
> it wasn't, but as you say...it was winked at as long
> as "nothing happened".
>
> It kind of validates my oft expressed opinion that
> railroaders of yesteryear
> were pretty much "self supervised" and not
> micromanaged as seems to be the
> case today.
>
> Pete
>
>
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>
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