Re: [CBQ] Student Trips

["Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Leo et al


I too thought that the just  "wandering around and getting on whatever train 
you could" was somewhat different from my own experience


My student trips here on the Lincoln Division summer 1956 consisted of a round 
trip on the Lincoln-Hastings Local...about 12 hours each way with  one of the 
"wildest" conductors on the division...He was very nice to me and I was 
fortunate to have on the head end  (which is where a student belongs" a young 
brakeman who had served in WW II and hired out in 1946...He was a nice guy and 
showed me everylthing he could...The other trip was on the Lincoln-Columbus 
local...a like  "long leggeed" 16 hour job.  These were of course unpaid...


I don't remember having to have the conductor sign anything on either of these 
trips...After the second trip I just called the crew caller told him what time 
I tied up and he marked me up on the brakeman's extra board.


Pete



-----Original Message-----
From: Leo qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Mon, May 19, 2014 6:40 pm
Subject: [CBQ] Student Trips


 
  
    
                  
I just finished reading the student trip piece from the 2014 summer issue of 
Classic Trains.

Doug and others will you refresh my memory about those unpaid student trips ?

While the guy in the article basically just goes out and gets on engines more 
or less at random; as I recall; weren't we assigned certain jobs and days to 
make student trips ?

If my memory is correct I went on the Irish Mail one day and a 4 o'clock switch 
at Eola another.
I don't recall any beyond that. Once completed I was marked up at the callers 
office and seniority started with that first paid trip.

Leo

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