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Don Brown..I love your Mr. Dithers analogy..My. Mr. Dither's was George Voss..Terminal Supt at Blue Island for the Rock Island. My experience is a close parallel to you...In fact it is an "exact" representation. My "supposed" hours were to be 6:00pm to 6:00am. However George wanted me to come in "early"..before 6:00pm so he could telll me all the things he wanted to be done that night and to "regurgitate" all of the things that he had bawled me out that morning for not doing the night before....Then he wanted me to stay "late" in the morning so that he could rehash all the stuff that hadn't gotten done that night that I was supposed to have done then. One morning after one over these "overtime" sessions George told me to "go home and get your rest"..I replied "SLEEP FAST HUH"..George did not like that comment. Later on in my "career" at Blue Island George took to having me give him a "wake up call" at home at 6:00am. Then, I presume the inquisition on his end was being done from his bedroom.
As a "parting shot"..when i availed myself of an escape hatch by accepting the offer of a job in the Freight Claims Department in the spring of 1964 and it became necessary for George to release me...he hemmed and hawed and stalled delaying my release for about two weeks after he was supposed to have done it....
Toward the close of my tenure and during the "transition" one of my CO NIGHT TRAINMASTER "Targets" made this astute observation...."Hedgpeth went from the "guy who couldn't do anything right"..to THE MOST VALUABLE MAN ON THE DIVISION.
Don, if it wasn't for this stuff we wouldn't have any good stories to "regale" the Troops wit;h...I always fall back and quote this statement from a story in an old issue of RAILROAD Magazine. "What we endure with hardship....we remember with delight"....
Louis Zadnicheck whose father was Q Division Supt at Aurora during this same time was acquainted with GHV.
Pete
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From: Don Brown dbrown02@rochester.rr.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sat, Jan 13, 2018 1:00 pm Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Elephant Style Es
And then there were those of us who worked under a (non-CB&Q)
Terminal Superintendent to whom WHATEVER you did was wrong! As
midnight Yardmaster, the last order of business before I left each
morning was having "Mr. Dithers" scream and yell about what I SHOULD
have done at 2AM. If we held the local to switch more cars into it,
he blew a fuse because it was late leaving the yard. If it got
coupled, inspected and dispatched promptly, he would go ballistic
because there were cars still in the receiving yard which could have
gone on the train. And many other similar stories. I'm sure the Q
didn't have any guys like that ;) but other roads sure did!
On 1/13/2018 12:29 PM,
Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com [CBQ] wrote:
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