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Ed
 
When passenger trains were discontinued, the crews usually went back to  
working freight, mostly in a long or inter-divisional pool, thus, having  little 
or no 'local work' but running nearly non-stop from terminal to  terminal.
 
Sometimes they marked up on a local out of their home terminal that worked  
daylight hours.  I remember when the EL trains came off, a couple of second  
sub-division men from Meadville marked up on the Oil Run and the PPG job, both  
working out of Meadville.
 
On some instances, a passenger crew would have enough service and age that  
they could retire.  The only thing that was holding them to the job WAS the  
job.  When the trains were eliminated, the guys sometimes took the  pension.
 
smt

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Since there has been a dialogue about EL passenger trains; here's another question.  As EL, and other carriers, either terminated of cutback throughline passenger trains, what happened to the crews who ran them.  Did they get transferred to freight?  That would be quite a change; or were they terminated?
 
Ed Montgomery
 
 

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