Re: [CBQ] Student Trips

["dblp1@yahoo.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

A good friend of mine did that exact student trip sometime in the early 60's.  
I only recall him talking about it once. . . but at the end he said:  "I marked 
off the Q and never went back.  The next Monday I put in my application at the 
Peoria Terminal for a Leverman's job, and they hired me on Thursday"
 

 Just like Archie, he proved anyone who said he'd never make it as a railroader 
wrong . . . he worked as a PT Operator, then as an Agent and Operator for the 
TP&W, finally moving up to Dispatcher on the Tip-up.  (In fact, he was the very 
last TP&W Dispatcher, going off duty at 12:01am, January 1, 1983 as the old 
TP&W became a Santa Fe branch.)   He continued to work about 6 months for the 
AT&SF until they got their dispatching moved elsewhere, and he took off to 
Topeka to end his career as a Crew Caller at the Argentine Yard.