This is a prime example of one problem we have today as every thing is done by computer and machines and it just adds to the jobless. Also with out the paper trail our history is being lost.
Steve in SC
From: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, January 17, 2013 12:43:01 AM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] RE: [nburlingtonroute] The CB&Q and the REA
I remember looking through annual reports to the stockholders and seeing things like the total miles of engines in yard service and thinking, my gosh, some clerk looked at all of those daily reports of engine formen, then figured out how far the switch engine moved that day and then totaled them all up! And they had it down to the mile. Anybody who has been on a yard job, knows they don't have a clue of how many miles you moved that day. A good engine foreman would make a lot fewer moves to get the same work done than a poor one.
--- On Wed, 1/16/13, Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com <Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com> wrote:
From: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com <Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CBQ] RE: [nburlingtonroute] The CB&Q and the REA
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2013, 10:32 PM
This little conversation should help the "newbies" to the railroad business understand why it took "battalions" of clerks in pre computer days to keep track of this stuff....Also some clerk deep in the bowels of 547 W Jackson looked at and checked every ticket punched by a conductor and woe be unto that Con who didn't do it right.
No wonder those old branch line conductors were'nt' real excited to see Jim Christen and I on the platform with our grips waiting to ride with them on some obscure branch line local where no "ticket report" had been made for many moons. On a few occasions they didn't even pick up our tickets..
On one occasion we heard the conductor growl to the agent..."They don't with us do they"....
Pete...with many memories of days long gone by
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