To open the doors on the original equipment there was a box like above the
center of the doors with six buttons. Top and Bottom was open and shut. The
Left was for all cars to the left. Center for that car only and Right for all
cars to the right of looking at them.
One nite working the East End I had switch trouble at Congress Park and had an
Express Down the middle that should have crossed over at Congress Park first
stop La Grange Road. Unable to cross them over I radioed the head end and told
them I would run them west of the Park and back over to main 1 to get them on
the right track. They pulled west of the Park and SOMEONE popped the doors and
just like the sheep they are the train unloaded to both sides. Right in front
of an Eastbound Turnaround. So I got a nice letter telling me to attend a
Kangroo Court.(investigation to assertain the facts??)
The result was I got to keep my job and all the cars were changed to stop the
practice with the buttons drilled out so you had to have a key(??) to open them
but all SOMEONE needed was the refill from a ball point pen to open the doors.
The key was just a wire with a loop on one end the crewmen were suppose to keep
on their person.
There are very rare times one can see the results of things like that on the
Railroad as it is too big but that was one thing I could say is a safer
practice??
SJH
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From: superconductor80 <superconductor80@yahoo.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 8:29:44 PM
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Commuter Consist Question
Hello Group,
This is my first post here and I just want to say how educating this list has
been for me since I joined about 6 months ago. I am an Engineer/Conductor
working for the BNSF out of Aurora and been with the railroad almost 6 years.
I just wanted to add to Mr. Phillipp's post about the crews flipping seats.
There is indeed still a coach cleaner assigned to "plug in" the trains and
clean and flip seats in the coaches at CUS, although it is only for the evening
trains starting with 1372/1291 and on until 1296/1297. But again it's really
more of a courtesy that he flips the seats than a requirement.
I also have a couple questions to pose. Having worked almost exclusively in
suburban service as a Conductor/Brakeman for my first few years, I've seen
almost every old CB&Q Bi-Level coach either get retired or rebuilt over the
last few years. I was wondering what color the interior of the Budd Bi-level
cars prior to them being rebuilt in 1973 and being painted the light
yellow/cream walls and brown seats? And was that light yellow/cream even the
original rebuilt color? Also were the cars always equipped with the ability to
open all the automatic doors on the consist from one car?
Thanks,
J J DeMarco
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