--- In BRHSlist@y..., 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
>
pete, leo
could this of fallen under a 'vest pocket agreement'?
warren
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