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Re: [CBQ] Switcher at Leavenworth, KS 1961 (was 1957)

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Switcher at Leavenworth, KS 1961 (was 1957)
From: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 10:06:58 -0600
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Dallas,

Thanks for the info! I have the paperwork from the last year the BN office in Leavenworth was open in 1982. Several complaint letters from Bay State Milling to the BN about the switch crew running the loco over the track scale.

So since there was a scale at Bay State, did the crew weigh the cars going in, going out, or both?

My friend Jim McCroskie, who became a BN special agent after the merger (he was a Q clerk at Murray Yard prior to the merger), talks about staking out those beer cars laying in the weeds at East Leavenworth to catch people breaking into them.

Bill Hirt

On 2/4/2019 8:28 PM, Dallas Giddens wrote:
The loco pictured in Bill's post is the type of engine that was in service when I was there.

I was Freight House Foreman (Yard Clerk, Billing Clerk, BTL / LCL Clerk) in 11worth in the late 1960's - early 1970's, around BN merger time.

I billed cars for the Q and Rock Island occasionally as we were a joint agency for CB&Q / BN, Rock Island, CGW / CNW and we interchanged with the ATSF.

Bay State Milling was the biggest customer at that time and generated several cars (air-slide hoppers of flour) per day. They required several switches at 9:00a, Noon, 3:00p, 6:00p to spot cars. We did hot have much other business except the occasional beer car from Budweiser and a car of lumber now and then.

The job was held by old heads as they were on duty at 9:00am and had switches throughout the day. Between switches they were on the spot, usually cooking something upstairs in the crew quarters. After the last switch of the day they would get the train together and take it ten miles or so across the river to East Leavenworth on the CB&Q mainline. It was an overtime job every day.

Chief Clerk was K T Boucher, Cashier was Bill Drysdale_._,_._,_

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