Well, looks like I have to correct myself. There are BN cars on the switch
list. So it is a BN form.
But you get the idea of what I and my coworkers called a switch list. Maybe it
comes down to what was handy. When you think about it a blank piece of paper
could be used to write car numbers, etc onto.
Leo Phillipp
> On Jun 8, 2021, at 12:58 PM, Leo Phillipp via groups.io
> <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io> wrote:
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> While I haven’t dug deep enough to find my blank Q switch list here is a
> photo of one from an article I wrote in 2016 for Friends of the BNSF’s
> Expeditor. This is exactly what I was trying to describe in words. As always
> a picture is worth a thousand words.
> This example is from switching operations at West Chicago,Illinois by one of
> the “mail” road switchers for staging tracks for input into General Mills
> from the yard adjacent. Barely visible at the top is the notation cars are in
> denoted as being on yard one and listed east to west. Unfortunately the
> bottom and top are cutoff so we still don’t have a form number. Since the
> destinations of the cars are listed as “E” and “W” I can verify this is Q
> activity because by sometime around 1964 or 1967 General Mills added to the
> warehouse and then building tracks were numbered one through four. I can’t
> say for sure but I would bet the writing is by Russ”Rip” Repetto of story
> telling fame.
>
> Oh and as further info. We were still using switch lists at West Chicago into
> the late 1970s. It’s the last location I remember them being used. Every
> where else Compass, the computer car inventory system would provide a
> pre-printed form with a list of the track and cars in it. All one did from
> there is write where you wanted the car to go to. The agent or operator would
> have written the destination of each car in the column. But there were very
> few numbered tracks at Rochelle. Every one had a name. As the new man in the
> job I had to quickly learn what CN,115,199,Swift,new city, standard and many
> more meant.
> When I worked the Rochelle night job in the 1970’s it was routine to be
> handed 6-8 pages when we went to work and then 4 or 5 more as we progressed
> through the 12 hours of just about non stop movement. That entire story will
> be a future article.
>
> As an aside if you are interested in knowing what really went on behind the
> scenes in working the suburban trains(dinkies). I just turned in a lengthy
> article to Friends of the BN. At first cut it looks to be a two issue article
> next year.
>
> Leo Phillipp
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