Hey Doug,
All,of these names should be familiar and I think we both can picture to what standard each maintained the status of "his car".
The list is clearly not in seniority order:
C.T. Moen 14424
R.A. Colgan 14534
R.R. Repetto 14497
R.A. Watson 14602
W.D. Doyle 13790
D.B. Coyle 14315
L.B. Peshia 14605
Imagine working the pool being able to predict which day you would lay over at home based on
3 scheduled trains,each way,each day,with an occasional extra tossed in.
Compare that to the 21-23 turns by 1975 or so with dog catching,the wrecker,work trains and every other unscheduled job dumped in the pool. And that was before the unit coal trains started running around 77/78.
I'll never forget the first coal train eastbound out of Savanna. The woodchopper hogger had cranked the feed valve to 110 lbs while in route as the wt of the train must have scared him.
Then as he came into Savanna he turned it back to 80 lbs. We had sticking brakes for several stations until we figured out what he had done. Big holed the train and started all over.....
Leo
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Hey Leo, who were they? I remember hearing about how some of them were highly fastidious and protective about theirs. I wonder how it went over when someone caught the turn off the extra list. And when that someone was the Conductor.
Doug
Oh, and did they still assign w/c's after they stopped doing it in the pool? I'm thinking of the Eola wayfreights.
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A little digging in The Burlington Waycars shows local chrmn Metz Aurora assigned w/c's as of 8/1/68 w/7 Waycars in the C&I pool,each assigned to a specific Condr(lot of memories came back looking at those names). Each are wood. The Ne10s are shown on other docs. At Cicero in transfer, KC same and Ottumwa div.
Guess C&I pooled Waycars was even later ........
Leo
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Bob,
The C & I pool was one of the last to pool w/c's. I'm still digging in the BRT files for a definitive date. But so far research and oral history points to (yes,believe it) 1967/68. The La Crosse div.
Crews pooled before the C&I guys so at least until around this time the swapping of w/c's took place at Savanna.
Since the C&I crews wanted to keep their assigned cars all newer equipment went to the pools.
Therefore while it may have happened I have no record of an assigned NE 10 to the C&I crews.
There is a 1968 Aurora div assigned Waycar roster in the latest Waycar book. all are wood.
Someday hope to a do piece on handling of assigned w/c's at the various Aurora division yards(the files are full of info/complaints). Adding assigned w/c's to a layout operation would add a lot of switching and realism.
Leo
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Was looking at threads about waycars in the archives and wondered whether NE10's were ever assigned to the C&I in pre-pool days, i.e. the early 1950's. Suppose I should also ask for clarification on when pooling began. Thanks,
Bob Herrick