Ironically, it was in the same year of 1881
that the Burlington and Wabash jointly created the Humeston & Shenandoah
Railroad out of the Iowa, Missouri & Nebraska Railway (owned by the Wabash)
and the Southern Iowa & Nebraska Railroad (owned by the Burlington). In
1895, there were foreclosure proceedings and the company was sold to Charles E Perkins
(CB&Q President), and eventually folded into the Keokuk & Western in
about 1901-2.
Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ
From:
CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: 11 January 2015 19:09
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Burlington
employees
"Wabash"
for a long time was old railroad slang for an error or goof up. To
"Wabash" a car was to fail to push it past the clearance point in the
yard and to corner it with a car on the next track. To "Wabash" an
air hose was to put the gasket in the gladhand upside down. The Wabash had a
reputation for sorry railroaders!
From: "'Rupert &
Maureen' gamlenz@ihug.co.nz [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015
11:48 PM
Subject: [CBQ] Burlington
employees
While we are singing the praises of Burlington employees, another
Railroad Gazette clip from 1881 -
The
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy has perhaps the best blood in its ranks, and
perhaps,
too, it has exercised more care in selecting its men.
The men on the Wabash system are less intelligent, but there is a wide-awake
interest in their business, which we regret to say does not seem to exist on
the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul. ….. nowhere in the west is there more listlessness, and, I
judge, want of professional interest than on some parts of this road.
Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ
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