Archie...How did we ever make it without A/C???? My wife often asks that
question...Well we just didn't know that there was any other way...
All three summers I worked here on the Lincoln and Wymore divisions I got
"forced" on 93-94..This was the Lincoln-Wymore local.? You were called for
about 3:30 am, but never got out of the yard until 7:00am or so...Sometimes we
got a little ITD...think you had to be on duty 1.5 hours or so for that to kick
in.?
We would? go to Crete and set out about 50-60 cars for the Crete Mills there
and then go on to Wymore getting there around noon or thereabouts...Walk up to
the old hotel restaurant. and then "repair" to the waycar which had been shoved
down on the house track by the old Freight House and try to get a little rest
in the 90-100 degree Nebraska sun.
We were usually called for 8:00lpm for the return trip to Lincoln.? We'd leave
about 9:00pm, get to Crete about 10:00pm and then work in the Crete Mills all
night until about 6:00-7:00am.? Get our train together and get to Lincoln
around 9:00am or so.?
The job paid pretty well, but Oh those 2:00am calls and that afternoon "rest
period" in the sun followed by an all night switching session made it less than
a desirable job.
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: Archie <kliner@mywdo.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 7:46 am
Subject: Re: [SPAM]Re: [CBQ] Yard Work Week
Pete, Try getting forced to the test train out of North St Louis that worked
about 5 hours a day and staying in a wooden waycar with no AC. We were testing
brakes and rigging for a factory out of Granite City, Illinois, American
Standard I think . We would run the train up to 80 mph and drop the test cars
and they would do their testing. The car had a see through glass floor. We used
a passenger engine. We didn't even make FTD. $19.97 a day in 1966..I remember
section men would flag the crossings we were running the tests over. I have a
nice picture of this train on the Ft Bellefontaine Bridge over the Missouri
River: if anyone would like to view I would put it in our group files. Archie
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From: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 7:36 PM
Subject: [SPAM]Re: [CBQ] Yard Work Week
Leo
This has nothing directly to do with your question, but the matter did get me
to thinking about a situation here on the Lincoln Division in the 1950's which
"semi relates" to what your inquiring about and just for the opportunity of
talking about some other "old stuff" here it is.
At Ravenna, NE...first crew change point west of Lincoln on what is now
the"coal line" there worked a switch engine whose hours were 1:00am-9:00am.?? I
think it worked 6 days (nights), but, apparently was bulletined as a 5 day job.
The job was crewed by Lincoln Division trainmen BRT.
The way it worked was the 3 man regular crew worked 6 days for five weeks and
then had five days off taken one man at a time.?? When you got "stuck" on that
job....all nights and no, or very little overtime off the extra board you were
stuck there for three weeks, relieving each man for his 5 days off.? The relief
was done off an extra board at Aurora, NE which existed in name only.? Since no
one wanted to go on that night Ravenna engine the youngest man on the Lincoln
extra board?(namely me) was "forced" to the Aurora extra board and then
assigned to the RAvenna switch engine.
I got stuck on that job one week summer of 56 and two weeks summer 57....It was
awful...Staying in an old non AC hotel, all night work...no OT.?? Here I was a
college student trying to make as much money as I could and this was of course
a "minimum day" thing...
The only time you could get a little OT was if there was a through freight
train due in within 30 minutes of going off duty time 9:00am they had to hold
you to change his W/C.
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: qutlx1@aol.com
To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 6:39 pm
Subject: [CBQ] Yard Work Week
In 1948 the yard work week was reduced to 5 days by contract agreement. Road
work remained 5,6 or 7 days depending on how a job was "advertised".
I just picked up the 1918 "schedule"(agreement between the Q and
BRT(Yardmen) hoping to find some points on work week..There were none.
Can anyone shed any light on yard work week prior to 1948? was it 6 or 7
days ?
>From the Eola engine assignment book for 1953-55 its clear some jobs were
still 6 days. The Alley in particular. My understanding is after 1948 a man
could choose between a 5 day week and other schedules.
Leo Phillipp
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