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Some train dispatchers also kept fire insurance. We had one guy use to have a problem with running over motor cars and use to get one about every 18 months take his 30 to 60 day forced vacation and be right back to try it again. Finally they forced him to take a chief job(and that paid 10 dollars a day more) One poor slob got one motor car and was set out with the only chance to come back to the railroad was as a clerk. At one investigation I heard of the principal came in before the start and looked at all the folding chairs and picked out the worst. Just after the start his chair collapsed so the company officer canceled it.
The closest I ever came was one time on the East End when working at Cicero second trick I had a switch fail at Congress Park. Back in the old days before they got rebuilt all the double decks had six buttons above the door to open them with the middle two for the car and the ones on either side for the cars either ahead or behind that car. So the switch fails right ahead of a westbound express who's first stop was La Grange Road and should cross over at Congress Park from 2 to 1 to slip into the station. So I told him to run west to clear the plant and I would back him over to Main 1 and then run him west. The old plant use to be farther west then it is now and so that put him right into the depot at La Grange Road but on Track 2 with no platforms so the doors pop open and the passengers bail out on track three right in front of an Eastbound Express Turnaround. So the company of course calls an investigation. So we show up and wait the required 30 days for the verdict to come down as Managerial Leniency. The company then had to rebuild every car so the buttons would not work by drilling a hole in the center and then you had to use a "key" (about the size of a ball point pen refill) Steve in SC From: "Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com" <Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tue, August 21, 2012 1:26:49 PM Subject: Re: [CBQ] Fwd: Fire Insurance
Yes John...I did...Said activity was required of all officers...So many "efficiency tests" had to be turned in every month..I think it was 20 on the CRIP.
One thing that always bothered me about testing was that it seemed always necessary to "go get a bottle" for consumption by the "testors"...Seemed to me it would have been, shall we say, awkward should the testors encounter a Rule G violation.. Since I didn't "imbibe" it would not have affected me, and fortunately that thing never happened although a good friend of mine while working for another railroad after the RI shut down did "get caught" and lost his job as an officer of that RR.
Pete
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From: John D. Mitchell, Jr. <cbqrr47@yahoo.com> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tue, Aug 21, 2012 10:50 am Subject: Re: [CBQ] Fwd: Fire Insurance Another thing fire insurance was good for was for the victims of "efficiency tests" and we know about them, don't we Pete? Did you ever "hide in the weeds"?
One aspect of this kind of insurance is injuries. Railroad employees are not subject to state worker's compensation laws. They have the "Federal Employers Liability Act" or "FELA". This act provides that if there is a contest as to fault or extent of the injury that you have to sue the railroad in court and of course that can take years.
From: Charlie Vlk <cvlk@comcast.net>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 9:47 AM Subject: RE: [CBQ] Fwd: Fire Insurance Leo-
Could you explain more what happened? I believe you are describing a setout on the IHB interchange track south of the Eastbound main. How did the train handling result in the damage?
Charlie Vlk
When we stopped at Congress Park to s/o he used a lot of independent as he had used the train line earlier. My partner made the cut and they pulled ahead spreading the mainline rail all the way to Maple Ave. Long story short the evening dinky parade was a mess and we all received the letter about" to determine your responsbility concerning the incident at Congress Park on ".
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