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Re:Fwd: (erielack) Passenger Train Question
- Subject: Re:Fwd: (erielack) Passenger Train Question
- From: "Janet & Randy Brown" <jananran_@_mymailstation.com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:52:35 EDT
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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