Similar to the Jumbo Book was the report we ran at Eola near the end of
Third Trick(11PM-7AM)
In 1973 the BN went to the Compass System using the computer. Each car had
a computer card and all the info was punched on the cards. Shuffle the
deck and you wound up with a real mess. But the foremen would tell you how
they switched and you could get the cars in the right order. One of the
jobs on Third Trick was to run a report of where the cars were at. We had a
large sorting machine and would sort the cards by number with it and run a
report so the yardmaster could see where each car was at in the yard.
On the AEI plates in the same year we would get a list from the Harbor at
Congress Park and it would be right on the money except for a few lines of
XXXXXXXXXX So you had to look closely to see what it was. The Q had leased
some box cars from Chicago Freight Car Co. and after the merger they were
repainted Cascade Green. When they were repainted and the plates were on
the decline as a lot of roads would not keep them up they were just sprayed
right over. Of course the computer could not read the painted plates. The
problem with the plate was it took a little maintance(cleaning) something no
one wants to do.
sjh
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From: <qutlx1@a...>
To: <brhslist@Y...>
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 8:07 PM
Subject: [BRHSlist] Jumbo Book
> Pete didnt know about the Jumbo book.Thanks as I've often wondered how no
> bills were resolved prior to computers.
> My first job in the regional office in CHGO as an exempt employee was
> supervising the car service bureau.It was all on CRTs.
> Now if you thiink the Jumbo Book was tedious heres how UTLX kept track of
> their cars in the good old days.On window shades.
> Yes,modified window shades. Seems the mileage reports came in from the
then
> dozens of carriers and an army of clerks recorded car movements/locations
in
> pen in vertical columns on these shades.If an error was made they had
these
> special knives or scrappers and lots of white out.When I moved to Mgr flt
> administration at UTLX my supervisor of mechanical records had started
his
> carrier as a mileage clerk.He still had his "knife".
> Leo
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