I have no idea of the actual miles involved and Leo will expound in detail
later re "step-on-step-off" agreements, but there was interdivisional activity
on the Kansas City-Omaha trains..No's 20-21 (Silver Streak), 26-27, and 22-23.
I never realized it at the time, but heard occasional comments regarding
"equalizing mileage".
These trains between St. Joe--Kansas City and P Junc were on the St. Joe
division..From P Junc to Omaha it was Creston Division...The crews were based
at St. Joe which was their home terminal...If I understand it correctly the
train crew...or maybe just an indivdual trainman would begin his day at St. Joe
working South from St. Joe to KC on No. 20. He would come right back out of KC
on 21 working to Omaha, then returning to St. Joe on No. 22. This might not
have been the case for every crew, but it it's an example...There was
interdivisional run plus a "step-on step off" arrangment which Leo is planning
to discuss in further detail.
This stuff must have been a nightmare both for the divisional
timekeepers...which was a function performed in the local Superintendent's
office as well as the local BRT and ORC "grievers".
Pete
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From: qutlx1 <qutlx1@aol.com>
To: cbq <cbq@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sun, Dec 19, 2010 10:54 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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