Re: [CBQ] Still Working As Age 78

["Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Leo et al...I'm on a couple of "railroad oriented" facegroups..All I hear is griping and complaining and the most foul language I ever heard is just part of the conversation.  Worse than I ever heard when I was on the "payroll"...There seems to be a competition out there between today's officials to see who can get the most of his employees fired.

Some of us were up at Fremont a couple weeks ago and there was a utility guy came over and talked to us in that same vain..Said he go "wrote up" for improperly hanging on a car..Didn't have three point contact or some other ridiculous stuff.  

He also said he was going over to order his "safety supplies" which the company pays for a ships direct to his home...

Sure 'ain't like it used to be"...I'm really glad that I at least got in on the tail end of railroading as it had always been.  

Pete

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From: Qutlx1 qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sun, Jul 2, 2017 8:27 pm
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Still Working As Age 78

 

Dave,

They are ver few and far between as far as having fun. I talk with the few I know still working and watched the crews at the Galesburg meet as they came and went from the hotel. To a man all I hear is "Leo it ain't like it used to be, it ain't fun "

Leo

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On Jul 2, 2017, at 6:35 PM, David Weber dave@cimmarondesign.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

bless them all that are still having fun

On Jun 30, 2017, at 12:14 PM, qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Pete,

The age 70 forced retirement age came into place in the 1950s in the files I've been reviewing. My understanding that rule was eliminated durin g Ro nald Reagan's presidency. Employees can work as long as they wish as long as they can meet the requirements.

Leo

On Jun 30, 2017, at 1:07 PM, Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Leo and Louis

Interesting to hear about someone still working as a locomotive engineer who is almost as old as I am..(81)...I thought that...even back in my day (1956) that an arbitrary requirement for engineers was agreed on by both "The Company" and BLE and Bof LF&E.  

Can they keep on working as long as they can pass the "physical"..??

I believe that steam was last used on the Omaha-Lincoln divisions in fall 1959.  In my first summer as a trainman  (1956) there was still lots of steam working the yard at Lincoln and some on the Lincoln-Hastings line.  I think also some was used on "Lines East" into fall 1959.  If that's so then Mr. Hill could have fired steam in his first year.

Also in the summer 1956 a steam engine (5080 was one I saw at least) was kept hot at Ravenna as protection.  In those days waycars were still being changed at Ravenna and I made a trip or two off the extra board from Lincoln-Ravenna and saw the 5080 at work on the Ravenna switcher..)Ho urs 1:00am-9:00am.  

In late summer 56 I was "forced" on the Ravenna switcher for a three week stint...a lousy job..Night hours and no OT.  Well, I thought maybe I'll get a break and get to work with steam.  Well, it never happened.  Here's why..

At that time two locals worked out of Ravenna.  There was the Ravenna-Aurora-Burwell local and the Tri weekly Lincoln-Ravenna local.  Both those locals used Geeps as regular power and they worked out of Ravenna on alternate nights..Hence there was always a "Geep" available for night use on the switcher..An excellent and efficient use of motive power but "fatal" to my hope and dream  to work with a steam engine. Also that 5080 was run to Lincoln every month or so for "inspection"..They would usually tie a few cars on her and run her extra..I never got to do that either...

Hence I never got the opportunity to make the claim that I could have made to "have worked in PAID REGULAR REVENUE SERVICE on steam.  

I do hold claim however to have "worked" in NON PAID revenue service firing RPLN 440  Nee B&MR 156 on the Rock Port Langdon and Northern..ages up to 9.  

Pete

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From: LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
To: cbq <cbq@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thu, Jun 29, 2017 5:40 pm
Subject: [CBQ] Still Working As Age 78

 

June 29, 2017

 

Leo - Here's someone else you may want to interview:

 

http://www.galesburg.com/news/20170629/hes-been-working-on-railroad

 

Mr. Hill started out firing Q steam at Galesburg in 1959. He's still working as a BNSF hogger at age 78. That must set some kind of record, at least for today. I'd like to have some of his DNA! 

 

Wonder if he's a BRHS member or knows about this Group? Best Regards - Louis

 

Louis Zadnichek II

Fairhope, AL

 

 

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