Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Rates effective 12/16/53

["Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>]

Louis

If you think that 16 hour days might have been onerous, how about a 57 working day month?

The largest amount of money over drawn by an engineer of this division of the Chicago, Burlington &, Quincy for one months' wages, was drawn this month by Sam Knight, who put in 54 days and drew $192-50, and the engineer of 375 of the Aurora division got in 57 days and drew $199-50.

Railway Review 1883 vol. 23 page 636

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

 

From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> On Behalf Of Louis Zadnichek via Groups.Io
Sent: Saturday, 29 September 2018 8:02 a.m.
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Subject: Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Rates effective 12/16/53

 

September 28, 2018

 

Bill - THANKS for providing this information. Your table reproduced OK for me.  Interesting data. Relatively little difference in pay regardless of weight on drivers, although in those days every penny counted, much more so than today.  At least we now know that the engineer on Class M-4-A No. 6315 got a little bit more that his counterpart on Class O-5-B No. 5632 when they double headed from Chicago to Galesburg on that well remembered fan trip in the early 1960s. And, correct me if I'm wrong, we're talking 16 hour work days in 1953. Best Regards - Louis 

 

Louis Zadnichek II

Fairhope, AL 

 

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