When I worked downtown at the main bank building at 135 LaSalle Street in
Chicago, we had two Q employees that worked in our mailroom. One was a
conductor whose train I rode all the time to and from the city. The other
was an engineer that I rode with a couple of times in the cab when the E
units were still around. In fact I got to ride with him on the actual last
run of an E unit on suburban service.
Keith Nystedt
Home Lending Officer
LaSalle Bank Home Lending Center
139 N. Cass Avenue
Westmont, IL 60559
Direct Line: 630-241-6422
Cell Phone: 630-881-5596
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Another good and previously "unrevealed" aspect of railroading in the "big
city" by Leo...chronicler of "tales of the rails" from all angles.
I must confess that though suburban trainmen on the Rock Island did exactly
the same kinds of "over town" jobs that Leo discussed I had never heard
that
particular designation given to it.
The Rock Island boys were a bit more conveniently located to the Chicago
Board of Train than CB&Q men were, but they all worked those in between
jobs
in the same basic fashion.
In what Leo described as "the good old days" it seems that railroad men
tended to be a bit more "money hungry...which is not a bad thing at
all....than
they perhaps are today...Leo does the present generation still work "over
town"??
I'll try to get a little treatise on "stopover cars" out tomorrow....This
was a tariff abomination right up there with "storage in transit" and
"milling
in transit" which I'll include after a little more pondering.
Pete
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