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Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:50:47 EDT
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Pete,
 
Here's my recollection of how doubling hill payments worked back in  the 
day.
 
25 miles: "from a point to a point and return then to that point."  
Basically you stall on a hill and double into the next station; you earned an  
additional 25 miles or approx 2 hrs pay. If you had this down to a science(see  
my off list) you could do this in about an hour and a 1/2. Not really a 
gravy  move especially in winter,blinding snow or driving rain. Most of the 
guys 
 preferred not to make doubles because of all the things that could go 
wrong in  the moves. It was not totally unheard of to double eastbound from 
Savanna into  Burke. You can move a whole lot more train on level track than up 
that hill from  a dead stop.
 
100 miles: you stall at a point and double thru a station taking the train  
to the next forward siding/station beyond the first one in advance, or you 
pass  thru a station twice in the same direction, you earned a 100 mile 
double.  Clearly taking a portion of a train from Rockfalls to Earlville or 
Somonauk and  then going back to Rockfalls for the other portion and then 
putting the whole  thing back together and proceeding to Eola would be a 100 
mile 
double as you  "doubled" past many stations.
The one that comes to mind is working the Earlville turn and doing ballast  
spreading westbound between Bristol and Plano. Then going back to  
Montgomery,leaving ballast cars, then heading west to do short work at  
Sandwich,Leland,etc. 100 miles. From a point,thru a station(Bristol) back to 
the  origin 
point and then thru the station again.
 
Picking up at a station. In essence the rule stated if you left town with  
more tonnage than you came in with and them stalled you earned 25 miles. The 
one  that comes to mind is westbound at Oregon,IL we would set out a few 
mtys and  pick up loads of sand and have to double to Stratford or Carter. 25 
miles. These  type of doubles were often claimed as 100 milers with argument 
being an extra  should have been ordered to do the pick up at the base of 
the hill. This is why  work on the Fox River Branch was arranged so that #86 
picked up at Ottawa and  not Wedron as stopping at Wedron would ensure a 
double up Wedron Hill. Also west  bound at Ottawa a double up south Ottawa hill 
to Hitt was somewhat  routine. Also eastbound into Serena despite not 
stopping at Wedron was  pretty routine.
 
Of course these payments applied only to wayfreights and thru frts,not road 
 switchers which could parade back and forth along their assigned territory 
all  day w/o any penalties. No wonder many jobs were converted to road 
switchers in  the 60s. Another way to avoid a 100 mile double was for a station 
to be dropped  from the timetable,then it didn't exist.
 
Leo Phillipp
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