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Re: (erielack) Passenger Train Question
Dear JJ,
You may not be able to answer all my questions (others, please feel free to
chime in)...but I'm curious...in terms of hours worked, barring major
delays, breakdowns, etc., how long would the average freight day be for 100
miles and passenger at 150 miles? With passenger, that might have meant
going 150 miles west and then deadheading (or working again) 150 miles
east?? Or taking a specific example of, say, the Phoebe Snow, the train
would run from Hoboken to Buffalo (pre-EL), but the 150 mile mark would
have been somewhere around Nicholson Viaduct. Scranton was at about 130
miles and Binghamton at about 180 miles, so presumbly the theoretical
distance was different than the real distance (no crew changes at
Nicholson, obviously)? And how were mileage overages or "underages"
reconciled--if they were reconciled ata ll? The same questions apply to
freight...and would local freight assignments (subject to shorter distances
but more drilling) be treated differently than run through freights where
clipping off 100 miles could, in some cases, be accomplished only in a few
hours. One last question relates to the maximum working day...during EL
days, what was the maximum number of hours that a worker could be on duty
before "died"? And what was the procedure for rescuing a crew that had
outlawed on the road? Any interesting stories in this regard?
Many thanks,
Chuck
Jjbchian_@_aol.com
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Re: (erielack) Passenger Train Question
04/18/2005 09:31 AM
Please respond to
Jjbchian
Not always the rule! Seniority ruled, yes, but the passenger daily rate
paid
much less then freight. At that time, the basic day for working passenger
was
150 miles, while freight was at 100. Freight paid much better then
passenger,
so many senior men remained on freight, rather then take a substantial cut
in
pay working passenger. When I rode No. 6 from Chicago on Dec 29, 1969, the
men
assigned to work that assignment out of Chicago and Marion could hardly be
labeled "Senior Men".
JJBoehner
>
> SENIORITY RULED!!! If you were senior, you bid on -- and got --
whatever
> job you wanted. Since passenger was easier than freight, they were
already
> senior. When passenger came off, the lowest ones on the board suffered
as
> everybody moved down however many notches it took to get there.
>
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