Indeed, if you look closely at the fine print stenciled on sides of some MoW
bunk & tool cars you will seethe Div/System gang # and assinged location. In
later yrs some would stray as Gangs were consolidated or new equipment
added/old deleted.
Gerald
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: cbqrr47@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 07:13:13 -0800
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Depot painting
System paint gang #1 stayed at Metropolis all the time to paint the Ohio River
bridge. Even so they lived in bunk cars in case they were needed elsewhere.
This practice continued until shortly after the BN merger.
--- On Sun, 3/6/11, GLEN HAUG <glenehaug@msn.com> wrote:
From: GLEN HAUG <glenehaug@msn.com>
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Depot painting
To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, March 6, 2011, 12:39 AM
To elaborate on the message below a bit, the Q also had System Paint gangs in
addition to System B&B gangs and Division B&B gangs. The gangs I was familiar
with divided up the painting as follows: Division B&B gangs typically painted
depots and wooden bridge signs on branch lines; System B&B gangs would do their
own painting associated with minor steel repairs on bridges; System paint gangs
would do painting of complete bridges or major steel replacements. Someone
told me in the late 60's that there were still 3 System paint gangs on Lines
East and 1 on Lines West, and they tended to not stray off their normal
territory even though they had system seniority.
Glen Haug
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: cbqrr47@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 14:44:54 -0800
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Depot painting
Q B&B paint gangs painted depots and every other bridge and building. This was
in the day before "out sourcing". The railroad did everything themselves i.e.
in house. Even so far as when the depot toilet stopped up, you had to wait for
the water sevice repairman to fix it.
And for a long time that meant you had to wait for him to get there on his
motor car.
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