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Re:Fwd: (erielack) Passenger Train Question



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.

Randy Brown
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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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