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Re: (erielack) Moving around....
Bruce, I was on my own. If u wanted to TRANSFER to a different division, you paid the move, etc. The Company did NOTHING. I DID hear from my grandmother (whose father worked for the Lehigh Valley at Coxton yard that when the family moved there from Elmira, NY, in 1890 or so, the LVRR let them use a Company boxcar for the household goods. Here's the REAL bad part - the RFE in Scranton (Freddie Hall) started me as a newhire with a new seniority date. This led to another battle with Sammy Miller when I only got 1 week of vacation when I should have gotten 2 and later 2 when I was entitled to 3. I usually TOOK 2 weeks and filed for the 2nd week which Sammy would deny. It is also one of the reasons I'm way at the bottom of the S&U seniority roster with a 1962 date instead of 1959.
I kept filing claims and a couple years after I was hired on the original Auto-Train my mother in Pennsylvania got a phone call from the accounting dept. in Cleveland saying they had a big check for me. It was a settlement of all my timeclaims and I heard that Sammy Miller got an angry phone call for causing all this trouble. I can't remember the exact amount, but I was able to buy a 16 foot centerconsole boat with a 50 horsepower Chrysler outboard & a trailer. I took a foto & mailed it to the crewdispatcher in Binghamton to post on the bulletinboard with a 'thank you' to Sammy. It sure looked nice tied up to my dock on the Intracoastal waterway under the palm trees. Especially when it was 10 below in Binghamton.
Walt Smith
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From: Bruce Alcock <nytrr_@_hotmail.com>
To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
Sent: Sat, December 12, 2009 3:02:04 PM
Subject: (erielack) Moving around....
Walt Smith wrote:
"I started on the former ERIE in Youngstown, Ohio....& after merger, went to
Scranton (DL side), then NY Div'n (Erie side), then Binghamton & Syracuse."
When the railroad gave you assignment in new territory, did they move you,
did they give you a moving allowance, or were you on your own and moved
yourself for a better job?
Thanks for sharing your stories with us,
- -bruce
Bruce G Alcock | OK N-Rail | 405-381-4314 | <mailto:nytrr_@_hotmail.com>
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