The last time the depot at Sesser was painted, foreman Bob Powell's Beardstowm
Division B&B gang # 1 did the job. It was in the late winter or early spring (
Southern Illinois' rainy season). The gang spent most of their time sitting
around the depot stove waiting for a dry day. BTW, bunkcars, kitchen cars,
shower cars and other outfit cars are not usually part of a "work train". A
work train or more correctly a "work extra" is an extra train that goes out
along the line with or without work equipment doing such work as ditching,
distributing track materials, cleaning up wrecks and many other such tasks. The
outfit cars sitting in a side track for the gang's accommodation are just that
outfit cars, not a "work train".
--- On Mon, 3/7/11, Carroll, Ed <ed.carroll@heartland.edu> wrote:
From: Carroll, Ed <ed.carroll@heartland.edu>
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Depot painting
To: "CBQ@yahoogroups.com" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, March 7, 2011, 2:43 PM
Thank you for this is a very informative post Gerald.
Does anyone know the gang number for the Fox Valley Branch either when the
branch was their territory or when the gang took care of all Q tracks in
LaSalle and Bureau counties?
My father was foreman of that gang in the late 1940s and again after a stint as
an Assistant Superintendent overseeing yard expansion at Clyde yards and a
stint as an Assistant Superintendent at LaCrosse, then back to Ottawa in
1957-64.
I am modeling a few bunk cars and a shower and kitchen car from photos of the
work train on a siding between Jackson Street and jefferson street in Ottawa.
Due to the poor quality of the photos I am having to guess at car numbers and
since they should also have a gang number I am further mystified as to how to
mark these cars. I would appreciate any help along these lines.
Ed
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From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [CBQ@yahoogroups.com] on behalf of Gerald Edgar
[vje68@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 2:00 PM
To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Depot painting
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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