To add again to Pete's comment about the army that watched over operations
and recorded the data.
Both frt and passenger train Condrs were required to turn in a delay report
at the end of a trip.There were designated locations in the terminals for the
deposit of said reports.
On the dinkies the location was a box in the Condrs register room at the
Aurora Depot.
Not long after winning a spot on the Condrs extra list at
Aurora,actually a preferred job, as one was pretty much assured of working at
least once a day and sometimes twice, I caught a night dinky. It was a two round
tripper and the last 4 trains of the night. I dutifully left the reports for the
first round trip from Aurora-Chicago and return in the box when I
registered arrival for the middle trip,dept for the inbound trip and arrival for
the last outbound leg(note that last piece). This was a common practice to
"pre register".
So when we arrived back at Aurora at 2:15AM on the last leg I had the
inbound and outbound delay report along with passenger counts and empy seat
reports in the inside pocket of my uniform jacket. I just was plain tired
and didnt feel like going into the depot. I was registered for the last arrival.
Thinking I would just drop the reports into the box the next day when I was
called to work for whatever....... I went home with the reports in my jacket
pocket.
Next morning at 8AM my phone was ringing....where were the delay reports
and passenger counts for the last round trip dinky? I explained they were in my
uniform pocket and would be droped into the box later in the day,that was not
acceptable and the counts were needed NOW. So I got up and provided the
info.
And no Pete, I did not turn in a timeslip for disturbing my rest in less
than 8 hours,but I sure thought about it !
Needless to say on any later late night dinkies I made the trek to depot
and turned in the %&^$#@ reports.
Leo