[CBQ] Rockfalls Wayfreight

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At the Robert Benett estate sale in Aurora amongst the literal thousands of 
 RR items I found time books from R.K. Johnson from the 1950s. RK was an 
Aurora  div brkmn who some of us on this list could tell some stories about 
but what I  learned paging thru his timebooks really enlightened me.
 
RK must have really liked the Rockfalls w/f as he worked it pretty much  
solid through the 50s and some years in the 60s with a rare venture elsewhere. 
 As Don Hansen and JF Schmid have previously told me the job did all or 
most of  the short work on the way to RF from Eola and then "ran" on the return 
trip.  Ordered for between 6:45 and 8:00 at Eola the job would be on duty 
between 14-16  hours upon arrival at Rockfalls. They returned usually ordered 
for 7:45AM and  would generally work an hour or two OT returning to Eola. 
On and off Weds would be the Eola-Earville turn day. It generally was an  
early quit day but could run to 12 hours.
Power is generally shown as an NW2(92xx) but for a while the TRs were  
present(94xx). They often drew a geep on Weds.
 
Leo Phillipp
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