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One the switchmen, at Christopher, Glen (Poss) Robbins lived all winter, one winter, in their assigned waycar. His home was in Centralia and he didn't want to drive back and forth. From: "qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: "<CBQ@yahoogroups.com>" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2015 8:05 PM Subject: [CBQ] Assigned Waycar as Home I've thought about the following question for some time and have finally decided to post it.
Please reserve your negative,it couldn't happen,comments as I suspect it did in more than a few Terminals. Here's my question; since back in the day, a job was assigned a Waycar, what prevented a Condr. Or a brakeman, from literally living in the Waycar ? Now before you say no way, there are Plenty of examples of operating employees living in trailers next to depots and roundhouses. Given that there were some rather unique individuals on the RR.,why couldn't a Condr just make his Waycar home and save all the trouble and expense ? Hey you're working 16 hours a day. Please understand that assigned way cars were tucked into Waycar tracks where water and coal were available. In most cases it would be a short walk to the post office and the bank. If you got Bumped you just moved to a new Waycar home. Need a shower ? Just walk over to the roundhouse bunk room. Leo Phillipp __._,_.___ Posted by: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com> __,_._,___ |