Leo
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What do you mean by ..."there was no run around while on the road"...????
Isn't that what a "run around" is...If you are in pool service and somebody
goes by you and gets to the terminal before you do then he is first out ahead
of you....
Please explain.....
Pete
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From: qutlx1@aol.com
To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, Aug 2, 2009 10:41 am
Subject: [CBQ] Savanna Pick Up
Paul,
What I know of the pick up comes from conversations with the old heads
that worked it. There are a couple guys who also worked the pickup in the late
60s on this list.
Keep in mind that over the decades with changes in the C&I day w/f the
pickups duties would change. The daytime westbound w/f changed many times over
the decades from Eola-Chadwick, Eola-Oregon turns,out one day and back
the next layover at Savanna,etc(see ETTs). Also depending on which time frame
your studying #81 was the night westbound w/f.or mdse job.(1946,47,58,59
ETT). I can find no reference to the P/U in any ETT.
The pickup left Savanna eastbound and worked to Cicero. Depending on the
time frame it would start right out at Chadwick and work everything east from
there to Sugar Grove,as needed. Also on the nights that the Rockford w/f
was off it could run between Flag Center and Rockford. It's main function
was to handle the Oregon,Rockford(at Flag Center), Rochelle and Eola pickups
and set outs. As the industries at Oregon and Rochelle grew in the 50s and
60's so did the pick up. The job was manned from the C&I pool crews laying
over at Savanna. It was generally near a 16 hr job by the time they got to
Cicero.
I have had conversations with guys who spoke of working all the stations to
Oregon for example and then the other points mentioned above. One of the
big issues with catching the P/U home was that several crews would pass you
while in route and since there was no "run around" while on the road you
would have short rest at home before being called westbound again. The other
crews would enjoy a normal layover.
By the time I came along under BN the westbound was #353 and eastbound #364
with work unofficially limited to p/u and s/o at Eola, Rochelle,Flag
Center and Oregon with an occasional "short" thrown in for good measure.
Generally we were 11 or 12 hrs and occasionally towed in. I once had the
pleasure
of working 6 round trips in a row on these 2 jobs !? #353 was ordered
around midnight and #364 could be ordered almost anytime but generally once
#353s power arrived.
Leo Phillipp
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