Ed,
I agree with Leo. It sounds like your father was involved with the Engineering Dept. The project at Clyde in the early 1950s may well have been the addition of the hump at Clyde which was completed about 1955, I believe. It was a major reconstruction
of the yard facility at the time. Ironically, the hump was removed years later as the yard was converted to an intermodal facility.
Bill Barber
Gravois Mills, MO
Sat Apr 23, 2016 9:47 am (PDT) . Posted by:
Hello Leo,
What, if any, was the relationship between an Assistant Superintendent in some place like Clyde Yards and Conductors in the yards? I remember my father was an Assistant Superintendent in Clyde Yards in the early 1950s. He was in charge of some big expansion
construction project and replacement of switches of something. I wish I could remember. He was apparently the youngest asst. sup. in the history of the road because he was underage when a neighbor signed him on as a flagman in January 1944 and he became a
foreman in early 1945.
I remember him talking about a couple of conductors at Clyde Yards, but I don't remember anything about what he had to say. In late 1955 they moved him to LaCrosse for a project and told him he would be a Superintendent, but then they decided that they were
folding that subdivision into another one. He went to Galesburg for a while and then to be back home he returned to running the section crew out of Ottawa and being in charge of section and extra gangs replacing the old rail with the welded rail between Sandwich
and Galesburg.
So what, if anything, would have taken place between him and conductors in any of those positions?
Ed