Fwd: [CBQ] Away from home accomodations

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Doug,

 

First I'm going to issue a caveat,I am answering from pure memory of reading the files 7-8 years ago. If my memory is correct a group of men working the Galesburg pool petitioned to set up a branch of the Aurora lodge at Galesburg and have the home terminal GT instead of Chicago. This is another huge file w/in the Aurora lodge BRT files.

 

Possibly Bud Linroth has some info. from his reading of Galesburg files over the years.

 

Just imagine having Savanna as the home terminal for the C&I pool ? It might actually have been better as we were spending as much or more time there as "home". Housing and land were a whole lot cheaper.

 

I was recently talking to 2 former C&NW men and they commented how the men in upper WI lived like kings because they received standard RR wages but had small town housing costs.

 

Leo Phillipp

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Leo, here's a question. How did it come about that Aurora's jobs on the mainline were based at Galesburg?

And remember when real Snuffies (Galesburg Div) would come up to run off miles Aurora racked up around the horn (and bumped old #1 Harding)? Interesting culture clashes at times. Doug

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Rupert,

 

That's one loaded question !  I kind of anticipated it and therefore have been thinking about it off and on all day.

 

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.

This meant that when someone bid in a C&I pool turn you commuted to and from Cicero, roughly 40 miles from home. Members lived in and around Aurora,farther west in the country and a few in the "burbs" between Aurora and Chicago. In essence what happened was the C&I pool crews rode the dinkies(for the most part) or drove their cars to/from the terminal.

 

Why because almost all the other jobs on the division,wayfreights,dinkies,etc were based out of Eola/Aurora.

 

Based on my reading of the lodge files in my posession a major stumbling block to joining the pooled waycar movement was the fact that once an eastbound crew arrived at Cicero and there wasn't a westbound dinky for many hours where would the crew stay until the westbound dinky could take them to Aurora ? With the assigned waycars they could stay in the waycar until the first westbound dinky in the AM(they even had local agreements with Cicero about when waycars could be switched in this situation). So I believe this was the main hang up in getting the Aurora crews on board for pooled waycars.

 

I don't know when it was agreed to but at some point the Aurora crews were allowed rights to use the "new" bunkhouse at Clyde when they needed to lay over. The bunkhouse was indeed new and modern at Austin Ave and the the engine house lead for the Aurora Div men from Galesburg working the mainline pool.

 

Hope this answers your questions,if not come on back again.

 

Leo Phillipp 

 

 

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