Straight to engineer

The Jan. 1, 1937 seniority for D&RGW Alamosa Division (formerly Fourth Division) had three men with engineer seniority but no fireman seniority: G.W. Densmore (1-21-1902. No. 8 on the list) A.A. Rowe (11-26-08. No. 21) and J.S. Thompson (12-04-08. No. 24).
Rowe came from the Florence & Cripple Creek. The others most likely had firemen experience somewhere else.
The problem with not having any engineer seniority it that these men would be out the door if there was a severe reduction in force. They couldn't take a fireman's job. Enginemen, who worked up in the ranks behind a scoop did not like these people coming in and taking an engineer's job just when they were about to be promoted.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/17/2010 08:06PM by CharlieMcCandless.