Before I get to the story I need to lay the ground work. As many of you know
the BRHS has received files from the Aurora,IL. local. I've been going through
the files before they go to the archives to remove personal info. And any BN
material.
Tonight I stumbled on a file, that's going to the archive, that contains
something I never experienced while working or ever heard about before.
The Aurora lodge was actually two lodges but with one seniority list. An Aurora
lodge at Galesburg handled frt. and passenger between Galesburg and Chicago. It
also worked any locals between Galesburg and Mendota. The lodge at Aurora
covered everything else between
Chicago,Savanna,streator,Mendota,Rockford,etc,etc.
In 1938 an Aurora Division,Galesburg based crew was ordered out of Cicero and
departed 12:45PM with 97 cars destined Galesburg. At Eola while the train was
being "worked" they were instructed to run to Wedron on the Fox River branch,
pick up four cars of sand and take them to Congress for set out on the south
wye to the IHB. The crew then returned to Eola, gathered up their train and
proceeded to Galesburg just under the 16 hour "hog law".
Needless to say timeslips flew.
Leo Phillipp
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