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From: "Leo Phillipp via groups.io" <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 23:16:36 -0500
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Gentlemen simply as clarification, form 1645 is not really a switch list. The 
form on the flicker page that Rupert cleaned up was known commonly as a wheel 
report. As the one on flicker shows these were filled out by Conductors on 
freight trains. It shows the station where cars were taken from and left. The 
one  on flicker is a train leaving Galesburg with most of the train for 
Congress Park, balance to Cicero/Morton Park/Hawthorne. I have attached the 
same form 1645 from an earlier time when it is used as a “statement of cars at” 
in the attached example it is at Rochelle. Filled out by agent instructing the 
southbound wayfreight to move cars on the Iron Sponge track to various other 
locations. This is much closer to a switch list. Hopefully it is attached and 
not deleted by the list filters.

But a Burlington switch list was made of card stock, was rectangular and much 
simplified. It had columns for car Mark and number on the left side.At the top 
the track name or number the cars were on would be written there. The next 
columns over would show which track the Conductor(way freight) or yard foreman 
or yard master wanted the cars placed upon. The actual Burlington switch list 
had only a form number but nothing designating it as Burlington. The Milwaukee 
had the herald at the top. 
I have held both the Burlington and Milwaukee switch lists in my hands while 
working. It was a challenge at night to hold the list, shine your lantern on it 
so as to read it while trying to watch the cars go by, pass signs along with 
pulling pins and throwing switches. It was even more challenging in a rainy or 
snowy night when you had the list inside your bright red Burlington Route 
“timetable holder” so as to keep the moisture from obliterating the written 
info.
When I find my actual, blank switch lists I’ll post one and have the Flicker 
guys put one there.
Leo Phillipp



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