Pete,
That bumping and that staying on the cement job were certainly
an interesting case of a local agreement.
It was also local agreements that made the Oregon-Mt
Morris job a two man and the other Aurora Division job was the later
version of the "Moonlight Job" that ran between Mendota and
Denrock.
Without digging in the files and trusting my memory..........
both of these jobs were preceeded by motor car passenger runs that were of
course a two man train crew. When the motor cars came off the jobs were locally
negotiated to be two man frt crews. Also in the case of the Moonlight Job this
stretch of track had at one time been served by 2 passenger trains,69/64 from
Cicero to Barstow and a frt local. I believe the point in each jobs discussion
was there was only light work and no mainline running.
The interesting thing about the Oregon-Mt Morris job was that
in the mid to late 70s as the sand plant grew the volume of cars handled really
grew but the job remained 2 man.
Leo
Leo