Here on the Beardstown Division, there were several locations that the company
provided houses for the section foremen. Most if not all of them had a company
telephone so that the foreman could be reached in an emergency. At Chistopher,
the roundhouse foreman was provided with a house. At Centralia for a long time
almost all of the Q employees lived in the northwestern part of town, near the
depot, yards and shops.
BTW, my mother was born in a MOP section house at Gorham, Illinois where my
grandfather was section foremen. He moved quite often and my grandmother used
to say that she had lived in every section house on the Illinois Division (of
the MOP).
--- On Tue, 1/25/11, Gerald Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Gerald Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Employee Moves
To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 12:50 PM
CB&Q did supply housing for some MoW Emps - for how long and at what rank/level
I cannot say & may also have varied by Division. There are standard drawings
however and I know of one or two still standing along the old
Edgemont-Lead/Deadwood, SD line now abandoned. However the point about
buying homes from fellow RR'ers makes sense in several regards. One example is
the Kruse House in West Chicago (owned/operated by the W. Chicago Historical
Society). This home went thru at least 2 different C&NW families and was
designed for those "on call" (train & engine service, some MoW, etc). Built in
the days by a railroader when phones were a luxury and extension phones unheard
of, this two story house has a little niche half way up the stairs where the
phone was kept. The idea was whether the employee was downstairs eating,
listening to the radio or whatever OR upstairs sleeping, he was equi-distant
from the phone. Also some RR employees for
those very reasons, tended to buy homes close to the depot, shops or whatever
was their employment so they could walk to work. I know this was true in the
negihborhood around Grand Crossing, WI for CB&Q Emps as there were Shops, crew
change & Div Hdq.
Gerald
To: gngoat@yahoogroups.com; CBQ@yahoogroups.com; MILW@yahoogroups.com
From: gnhistory07@live.com
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:36:20 -0600
Subject: [CBQ] Employee Moves
GN, Q, Milwaukee fans and employees,
Going to cross-post this to see if there were different ways this occurred or
did not occur.
A GN signalman, Mr. Anderson, changed territories and moved his family to a new
location. A different maintainer took his old job and moved into his old house.
The article refers to the house as the Anderson house, so I am guessing that
Anderson had owned the house. So far as I know, the company did not own or
provide housing for signal maintainers.
How often would the employee transferring in buy the house of the employee
transferring out? If you were the man leaving, you knew you had a pretty solid
buyer for your house and if you were the man moving in, you knew where to find
housing, which in smaller communities, could be challenging.
Thanks in advance for answers and discussions,
Chuck Hatler
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