Welcome aboard Tom and we hope your family ties to the Burlington will make you
an active member of our group. There is no better source of CB&Q information!
An Employee Timetable, usually white, is for employees only as opposed to the
'public' timetables that RR's gave to customers, usually colored covers
(Burlington were wine red with black/white border & lettering from 1890's to
1960s when the last few trs had full color covers). A Public will list General
Passenger Agents or just the addresses but this is for major cities only An Emp
TT lists some principal employees on each Division (geographic area of a RR)
but these are the Div Superintendent, Trainmasters & Company Doctors, not
Agents or train crew members. Thus neither public nor Employee will help you.
Your great grandfather would have been a member of the Brotherhood of
Telegraphers thus their magazine (RR Telegrapher) and old records from the
union would have his name. I'm not sure if the BRAC (Brotherhood of Railroad &
Airline Clerks after union mergers in the 60's and 70's) has such records (or
even what the current name is for BRAC).
Googling old newspapers from Crete might show his name in local stories as
being the Agent in a town in those days was a premier job and your great
grandfather would have been one of the pillars of local life. Some CB&Q fans
are serious authors and the one that comes to mind for Nebraska is Al Holck who
has written several books on the CB&Q including one on a Division in Nebraska.
he does not use email so I'll call him this weekend and see if he has you
relative's name in his files (he often visits the Nebraska State Historical
Society)
This list has well over a 1000 members so perhaps too one may have some old
family records that include you relartive as being a co-worker of one of their
relatives. This can be a long short however as in it's prime the CB&Q had 10's
of 1000's of Emp's.
Some CB&Q Emp records, stored @ the Crook Brother Warehouse in Chicago were
saved by the Nat. RR Museum in Green Bay (long story) You might contact them
but I'm not sure how far back those records went; may have been mostly who was
on the roster at merger in 1970. (a LOT of 3" x 5" index cards)
Season's greetings to you & your family too!
Gerald Edgar
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: thomaslannom@comcast.net
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 03:55:32 -0800
Subject: [CBQ] Request for Assistance
Hello,
I am brand new to this list so I hope it's okay to post this message to this
topic. I had HO scale trains as a kid but I don't know much about railroads
in general so bear with me.
My great-grandfather was a lifelong employee of CB&Q RR, from about 1910
until he died in 1945. He was a telegraph operator and depot agent at
Crete, Nebraska for most of those years. So my question is, does anyone
know of any publications that might list employees of CB&Q. Dave Lotz (in
an off-list message) mentioned to me that employee records were not kept
after the BN merger, but are there other places to look? For example, I
found a reference to the below listed book on Google, but I don't really
understand what the title means:
A Catalog of Burlington & Missouri River Rr & C.B. & Q. Rr Employee
Timetables in the Archives of the Nebraska State Historical Society (Railway
History Monographs) [Paperback]
What exactly is an "employee timetable"? I'm asking because I'm hoping to
find any records or listings of my great-grandfather, Bonner Ward Lannom
(1891-1945). I have seen some references to him in old issues of The
Railroad Telegrapher (two times). I also wrote off to the RRB requesting
any information they might have. Are there any other places I should be
looking for information about his years with the railroad?
Many thanks for any help you can render.
Seasons greetings,
Thomas Lannom
Portland, Ore.
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