Fwd: [CBQ] Away from home accomodations

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Charlie,

 

Could well be.I also think it may have been tied to the fact that based on what I've read in either  "The Great Burlington Strike of 1888" by Mc Murray, or "The Burlington Strike" by Salmons; Aurora was the terminal for frt crews working east to Chicago,west to Mendota/Galesburg and North at the time. Which would seem logical for C&I trains because as you say that road was operated seperately and ended at Aurora. At least thats what I recall reading.

 

It probably also has something to do with division of work between the Chicago and Aurora lodges. At one time the Chicago lodge had manning rights to all passenger trains operating out of Chicago,the Aurora Div had none. Probably one of the thickest files in the BRT files is the decades long transition of passenger work out of the Chicago lodge and to the Aurora lodge. I believe in the 1940s there were still two Chicago rights passenger men working.

 

The engineers had a different agreement based on miles operated in each lodges territory and the Chgo engineers manned x jobs based on the miles.

Anybody know if this agreement is still in place ?

 

Leo Phillipp

 

Leo Phillipp

 

 

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Is the reason the C&I pool was based in Aurora perhaps an artifact of the C&I being built in 1872 as an independent railroad by Francis Edward Hinckley with the urging of James Joy  (not a construction company for the CB&Q) and operated as such until the CB&Q bought it in 1882.  Originally built to bring the IC traffic from Iowa off of the C&NW at Freeport to the CB&Q at Aurora (prior to building the Aurora-Chicago line the IC had also routed its trains down to the Q at Mendota, up to Aurora, and on the Aurora Branch to the G&CU into Chicago over the St. Charles Air Line (the full line that connected to the G&CU at Harlem).  Most people don’t know about the IC using the CB&Q from 1852 until the IC’s own line from Freeport, the Chicago, Madison & Northern, was finally completed to Chicago in 1895.   I have never seen a photo of an IC train on the CB&Q for this 43 year period!!!

Charlie Vlk

 

I believe the Aurora Div,Savanna pool was unique to the entire Q system in that the "home" terminal was not home. The C&I pool ran between Cicero and Savanna,IL. The supply point for the pool was Aurora,IL which was also the physical home for most of the lodge members.

 

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