Re: [CBQ] An interesting side trip

["STEVEN HOLDING sholding@sbcglobal.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Leo

Sounds like a move a trainmaster would have dreamed up to keep the crew busy when the yard was not ready for the train

Steve in SC

On Thursday, June 8, 2017 12:52 PM, "'Mike Schattl' mike@schattl.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 



or steel plant.....

 

Mike Schattl

 

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From: qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ]

To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, June 8, 2017 11:38 AM

Subject: Re: [CBQ] An interesting side trip

 

I agree. The only thing I could think of was that some glass plant out east ran out of sand.

Leo

On Jun 8, 2017, at 9:05 AM, Don Brown dbrown02@rochester.rr.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Curious whether this was a screw-up on the part of some low-level supervisor, or if the cars handled were of such extreme urgency that the powers that be said hang the cost, move the cars regardless.  Hard to believe sand was "hot".

On 6/8/2017 9:57 AM, qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ] wrote:

 

Don,

Normally that would be the expected claims but in this case the miles Eola-Wedron-Eola-Congress Park-Eola were greater than 100 so the crew claim those.

Leo

On Jun 8, 2017, at 7:42 AM, Don Brown dbrown02@rochester.rr.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

It must have cost them a bundle for that move!  I'm guessing the whole crew who did the work got an extra days pay each for working outside their district, plus the first crew out in that territory probably got a days pay for not being called.  Or did they do things differently there?

On 6/7/2017 8:51 PM, qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ] wrote:

 

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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