I can't recall if the BN issued lifetime passes but I doubt it. A Q Pass on a Q dinky would sure be honored by the crew. I do recall being shown a lifetime pass by a retired Q employee on a BN dinky one day which I honored when working the job.
My memory of the BN practice was that exempt employees who commuted to their jobs along the east end and at the Chgo office were issued Quarterly suburban passes.
I carried one awhile.
On the other hand scheduled train and engine employees didn't have passes. You just got on the dinky and went to the deadhead car or the farthest west working car if no D.H. car.
Leo
Rupert & Maureen gamlenz@ihug.co.nz wrote:
>A lifetime CB&Q railroad pass issued to Mr M N Hartwig, retired agent, was
>sold on eBay recently. It had been signed by William Quinn, who was
>President and CEO of the Burlington from 1966 to 1970. Does any one know
>what Mr Hartwig did to earn him such an unusual gift?
He probably hired on to the Q the moment the ink on his high school diploma
was dry. I'm sure he would have worked a variety of low-level jobs like
section gang or telegrapher, till he was able to transfer into the passenger
department. At the end of his career, he was probably in a supervisory
position but probably not middle management.
The day is long past in which one works for a single civilian employer for
an entire working career over four decades, if not five if you're still in
good health.
It's the equivalent of a gold watch retirement gift that a conductor might
have traditionally received.
Did BN honor lifetime passes on suburban trains?