We have pretty well covered this in other posts over the last few years so
check the archives but I'll summarize here.
NO ONE HAS ATTEMPTED TO ANSWER THE B/O TRK ? COME ON......................
Because of the 1964 "dovetailed" seniority between yard and road men I was
able to work both and did. Road crews set out the stock on the "sheep yard
lead" unless as Steve has pointed out train length,traffic,etc made that
impossible. Then the stock got set out somewhere around the Aurora depot.
Generally
it was the sheep yd lead. We set them just far enough in so the "motors"
cleared the "board" to get the reverse signal back out. You always tied them
down
tight and also into whatever might already be there. The grade was sharply
downhill and no one wanted to see an overturned load of stock at the bottom of
the grade.
The Aurora ydmstr was responsible for getting the stock spotted. That was a
day job only. The the Eola YDM was responsible. Generally if they were
available the Aurora job was sent to handle the chore. I remember being on 4pm
swing
job that covered Aurora on Sat. nights and we always had to call the DS
before taking our early quit to make sure there was no stock in route.
If the Aurora job was busy w/dinkies then the Eola ydmstr would send
whichever crew he chose to go spot stock. It could be the
east,west,roustabout,Lyon
or Armour job or an extra.
The program was spot the stock at the North chutes and go back to whatever
you were doing.
Back in "the day" extra engines were called to handle just the stock at
Montgomery. I recall Lloyd "Bones" Mathers talking about catching extra engines
that would spot stock for hours, set the mtys over and then spot more. He even
told of getting "buried" in the "hole" because someone set more stock on the
lead while they were spotting and they had top go out via Montgomery tower
and back around to shove the new ones down. The mtys accumulated and were
taken
back to Eola.
During the time stock was reloaded at Montgomery there would have been that
side of the operation and outbound movement.
Beer was a short lived phenomenon. When Magill beverage moved from the
"Alley" in the mid to late 60's to the west side of rte 31 in Montgomery the
Budweiser would be s/o w/stock on the sheep yard lead by the mainline"snuffy"
crews and spotted by a switch engine. It didn't last long as soon the Budweiser
was coming from St Louis in trucks.
Leo Phillipp
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