Thanks, Leo, that certainly does open the blinds, so to speak. :)
I enjoy hearing these stories about how things were and have even re-related
them a few times. I think another eye-opener was the story someone told a few
years back of the engineer with a bad attitude who went several hundred miles
continually letting the train take up the slack 'cause he was pissed off at the
conductor. We who have never been there would have never thought of these kinds
of details that went on behind the scenes.
Cheers!
Jan Kohl
castlegraphics.com
On 8/20/2012 7:16 PM, qutlx1@aol.com wrote:
> Let me try and shed some insider details. We never called it fire
> insurance, it was job insurance. You could get it through BRCF or the UTU.
>
> What did it insure ? Working on any RR,not just the Q,was pretty much like
> working in a military organisation except there were no guns. There were
> mutliple rule books, the Consolidate Code,Signals & Indications rules,Safety
> Rules,Air Brake and Train Handling rules,rules pertaining to current
> timetable and special instructions and current Supt and trainmasters
> bulletins.
> If you screwed up and put something on the ground one of these rules would
> apply. How did I just come up with that long list.........Doug Hartman just
> emailed a couple days ago the Supts letter to him,myself and a couple
> dozens others that we were to prepare ourselves for the exam to Condr
> promotion
> in 1976.
>
> If you had any kind of a derailment,accident,incident,etc you would receive
> a letter asking you to attend an investigation to "determine your
> responsibility......................." concerning the incident. The end
> result,if
> found guilty of one of the 700 plus rules was time off. The job insurance
> replace a portion of your wages while you sat home for the prescribed time
> off before returning to work.
>
> Was there any other industry with this type of penalty system ?
>
> Leo Phillipp
> Former Brakeman,Condr,and local Greiver........yes I have been to a few
> investigations.
>
>
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