Leo/Pete,
As I recall it Engine Crews also used this arrangement at Aurora at
least in the summer of '66. They didn't seem to wait in the depot
much but liked the tower. Never really noticed Trainmen at Aurora
but I would think that they used the depot.
Within a couple of hours in mid-afternoon you had 25 & 26 and
31 & 32 all stopping. Could get a little congested at times.
Russ
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Sent: Thursday, 18 April, 2002 08:28
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Step Off
> Leo
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Pete
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