Shopping is a national pasttime and also a necessity of life. Working on the
RR made shopping a little easier as it was often easy to secure lifes needs
right at the source.
For example General Mills would allow switch crews access to their "recoup
bin" once a week and for $2/grocery bag you could fill it with anything in the
recoup. Limit two. There was a specified day for this shopping and if you were
an extra man on the job and missed the assigned day a request would usually
gain you access.
Great Western Sugar had a logical rule that any sugar spilled on the floor
while unloading the hoppers had to be thrown out. Switch crews could have as
much of it as they wanted. Since the piles got fairly substantial it was easy
to
shovel from the top of the heap and have 5-10 lbs of sugar in about a minute
or two.
Many more examples but I've got to go catch a train to CUS. Really.
Leo
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