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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