Re: RGS helpers

tomc Wrote:
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> Wages were based on whether running light or in
> train for the helper and as the company wanted to
> pay the LEAST, they were cut out at the top of
> grades and run light to the next help. Most train
> orders that were saved show the helper added and
> cut out on its trip over the road.
>
> Tom C.
> [attachment 42614 TO10-04-44_5.jpg]


After looking at the attachment I can see how mistakes were made by train crews. The author should have been a doctor. When I rode the RDCs on Vancouver Island they had just started verbal Track Warrants. I was in the cab with a Brit Conductor, a Scot "Driver", a man from India ahead on a speeder stating his Mileposts and the Dispatcher was Canadian, A. I was amazed they were all sort of speaking the same language.