I should really read what I type before hitting send. Should have read
"incredibly interesting and looking forward to"
Dan
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On Aug 30, 2010, at 7:07 PM, Dan <dlgrobe@ameritech.net> wrote:
> Leo
>
> Incredible interesting info. Looking forward seeing more here and in print.
>
> Dan
>
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> On Aug 30, 2010, at 3:55 PM, qutlx1@aol.com wrote:
>
>> Jeff,
>>
>> Let it suffice to say that as a young brakemen,conductor or engineer on
>> the Aurora extra list you rarely lacked for work. If anything you begged
>> for
>> a day off. Have you ever doubled or tripled out in a single day ? Except
>> in January when you starved. No guarantees back in the day.
>>
>> It's hard to imagine the amount of work that once existed in Aurora/Eola
>> and the wayfreights operating from there or on the Aurora Div.. We've just
>> scratched the surface in our previous discussions.
>> If you ever bump into Roger Field ,I believe his hire date is 1965. He
>> started at Eola. Or Izzy Jr at Rochelle who is like a early 1960s something
>> hire date.
>> Oh and if you work the dinlkies find Dick Temple before he finally
>> retires. His BN hire date is around 1971 or so but before that he worked
>> the CNW
>> mainline passenger trains in the 60s.
>> Darro Reppy can tell you about his first couple summers on the passenger
>> extra list at Aurora. His wife would hand up clean clothes as they unloaded
>> passengers at Aurora. He wouldn't be home for days as he got his rest at
>> the away terminal of Savanna,GT or Burlington. He would get a message while
>> in route to protect such and such upon arrival at CUS.
>>
>> By the way both Cat and Lyon received coal for the power plants,inbound
>> plate and shipped scrap out back in the day. On the Earville turn in
>> 1974/75
>> we pulled no less than 3 and up to 6 loads of scrap per day from Cat. Old
>> "frenchy" was the crane operator on the Cat scrap dock and had been doing
>> it for like 30 plus years there and at Peoria. He could look at a load and
>> tell you w/in about a ton how much was in it !
>>
>> The Armour Job,Nabisco PM,Earville Turn,Fox River were almost a daily race
>> to get in before going dead on the law. Imagine riding hand brakes at
>> Sheridan for hours while weighing loads of gravel ?! Then going to Wedron to
>>
>> switch it out.
>> The Irish Mail for decades was a 15-16 hour ringer 6 days a week. When the
>> "mails" came on w/General Mills in West Chicago there were 3 jobs a day
>> and all were on OT everday.
>> Then we ran extras on Sundays to clean things up !
>>
>> I was called more than once to work a yard extra at Eola just to help the
>> 2-3 assigned jobs/shift keep things fluid. Yes there was an East,West, and
>> often a Roustabout engine. Not every shift but fairly steady. And add an
>> extra just to keep things really crowded.
>>
>> In the past there was a frt house job at Aurora that was a 16 hour
>> ringer,besides the Aurora engine. The Alley job was the highest seniority
>> job in
>> the Eola/Aurora terminal. Stay tuned as I keep making progress on that
>> research that has been 30 plus years in the works. I have an orginal
>> drawing of
>> the Alley crew going to work done by fireman Mike Meketti in 1948. It
>> once hung in the "old" Eola yard office. One look at it says everything as
>> the
>> burro looks exhausted.
>>
>> Speaking of roustabout that was also the name of the afternoon Fox River
>> for years. They would use the same power that came off the morning Fox
>> River. But they went over to Earville via Baker/Catherine until the kids
>> burnt
>> the bridge down. When it came off it was replaced by the Ottawa-Catherine
>> Turn. 85/86 ran everday from Cicero to Streator.Then became 11811-812 under
>> BN
>> and made the round trip each night.That was one interesting job.
>>
>> Then there was the IV&N W/F from La Salle to Zearing which I was told more
>> than once by Red Lynch worked 16 hours/day,even on the day it came off.
>> Cement and perishable connections were the reasons.
>>
>> The Rockfalls w/f worked out of Eola to Rockfalls/Sterling 2 round trips a
>> week and made an Earville turn on Weds. Then it shifted to a Mendota base
>> and the Eola-Earville turn came on.
>> Check out some of the older Q photo books for shots of both jobs at
>> Earlville together.
>> The moonlight job ran Cicero to Barstow via Mendota and Denrock. 2 turns.
>> Then kept getting shortened up.
>>
>> There were yard engines at
>> Ottawa,Streator,LaSalle,Mendota,Rockfalls/Sterling,Rockford. There were even
>> extra lists at these points to protect
>> vacancies. Most were multiple shift locations..
>>
>> There were way freights on the C&I,around the horn,to Rockford. Road
>> switchers at Rochelle(up to 3 depending on the year or time of year), and
>> Oregon.
>>
>> C&I and mainline frt pools.
>>
>> And this was in the 50-70s. Going farther back you add in all the
>> C&I,Mainline and branch passenger jobs. I even have info on the motor cars
>> and milk
>> trains,baggage jobs and mail trains.
>>
>> "Nothing is so constant as change"
>>
>> Leo Phillipp
>>
>>
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