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Leo...I guess it varied from territory to territory, but I never heard of "roustabout pay"...vs "wayfreight pay"...in fact, the term "Wayfreight" in any context is "foreign" to my experience on either the RI or Q..
Out here on the Lincoln and Wymore Divisions there was..."Through freight pay" and "Local pay"...I think the diffferentiating was something like three or more pickups or setouts moved the through freight pay to local pay. Less than three of those and you still got through pay which was maybe less than "a dollar a hundred" difference.
In 56 when I hired out I think through freight pay was "$14.69. I've got it exactly in my old timebook, but that's downstairs and I'm not going down there now to check it...That number, if it's not exact, is not far off.
BTW...right now I'm planning to be at the Spring Meet...Shall I bring the jacket??? I can still get into it...If you can't I'll wear it and be your "puppet".
Pete
-----Original Message----- From: qutlx1 <qutlx1@aol.com> To: cbq <cbq@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sat, Mar 2, 2013 3:06 pm Subject: Fwd: [CBQ] Re: Mendota Roundhouse Jeff,
This was at a time long before the more sophisticated blocking of trains/traffic was developed so cars were handled in a more linear fashion(straight line) rather than being carried to terminals,blocked and then sent to destination, so while there would have been a number of run-around moves at the various turning points on the Roustabout;what caused the file I found to be created was all the switching the crew was doing at Earlville and Shabbona to dig cars out of set outs for the local customers or that belonged in their train for other points. Then to add insult to injury the Supt wrote the agent at Shabbona instructing him to make sure the Roustabout crew was switching out the Rockfords at Shabbona so the job going to Rockford didnt have to spend time switching. And the crew was unhappy because they were being paid "roustabout" rate of pay rather than wayfreight and they felt they more than earned the wayfreight rate.
Leo Phillipp
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Thanks everyone for the info. That "roustabout" down to Ottawa via Burgess Jct. and the back to Shabbona via Paw Paw would be really interesting to model somehow... (imagine the amount of running around the train or shoving they did on that job!) Steve, thanks for the info on the TT. That's the perfect kind of info I'm looking for. The layout is still in the depot and its a good model although I don't think it makes it all the way to 1st ave.
Thanks again, Jeff __._,_.___
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