Hi Leo and list. In the Appendix of the Pea Vine book is a letter from BRT
President Kennedy to all Illinois lodges concerning who had rights to all
assignments both passenger and freight. Concerning the Aurora and Galesburg
lodges it even specified which trains would be manned by each lodge. The
Aurora
Lodge would have rights on trains 15, 2, 35, 36, 55, 56, 3, 6, 1, and 10. The
Galesburg lodge would have rights on trains 29, 8, 17, 30, 19, and 14.
I was Galesburg Division Local Chairman from 1979 to 1991 and most of our
mileage equalization was with the Beardstown Lodge. Around 1877 Beardstown
crews instead of running from Beardstown to Rock Island came to Bushnell and
ran
into Galesburg on the Quincy to Galesburg Main which required mileage
equalization of 29 miles each way on a round trip. The mileage between
Beardstown and Galesburg was 72 miles and to compensate the Galesburg Division
for their 29 mile equity they were given one turn of the three in the
Beardstown
"North end" Pool. The Conductor's Lodge gave up their position in the late
1950's because they were having to "force" the youngest conductor to that
assignment. The trainmen's positions were kept until the early 1980's when our
lodge voted that if no one bid the vacancy from Galesburg, Beardstown would
keep
the position(s) until the next advertisement period. Crew consist took care of
the rest as most trains became Conductor only.
Another equalization took place during the early 1980's when the Duck Creek
Power Plant was opened near Canton and the crews operated the unit coal trains
from Beardstown to Vermont and Vermont to Canton via the old Buda-Rushville
branch. About once a year, the Galesburg Lodge would get a turn in the
Beardstown "North End" pool for about 3 months to equalize the mileage. I
worked that runoff job for 3 years. There was a seperate register book kept at
the Beardstown yard office for all crews to register their miles for each trip
to be used for equalization.
R. W. "Bud" Linroth
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Sent: Sun, December 19, 2010 10:54:23 AM
Subject: [CBQ] Arrival/Departure Times-Mileage offsets,etc
W/o spending hours digging through the files for exact details,I'll
generalize.
The lodges would keep track of the miles run in interdivisional service.
Then from time to time one postion on the crew from the "visiting" lodge
would be posted for bid by only the "host" lodge. So for example a Aurora
brkmns position on a passenger turn running between CUS and Burlington would
be
posted only for bids from a Ottumwa division man. He would take the job
until the miles had been offset.
Same methodology applied in many places and services. For example a
Galesburg Division man would work an Aurora job(if anyone was interested) to
offset the miles Aurora men had accumulated running "around the horn" from time
to time. I believe(though not totally sure) that if no Galesburg man was
interested in working an Aurora job for a period of time then the youngest
extra list brakeman was "forced" to take the job. Forcing people w/in your
own division was tough but interdivisionally made for real hardships.
These are the kinds of things and many others that the Local
Chairman(griever) got his monthly stipend to
handle.
I don't have the files for Ottumwa on how they divided the work between
East and West lodges. I can say with certainty from the Aurora files that for
a while in the 50s or 60s the Aurora crews operated far beyond Burlington.
The discussion as to which lodge was entitled to which work would come up
from time to time and be resolved by the General Chairman. I was recently
thinking that this whole subject could be an article someday.
Leo Phillipp
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