Re: Question about who called the train crews photo scanning
| April 25, 2021 06:59PM |
See attached 2 pages from Gunnison Enginemens "register" in Jan & Feb 1943.
Reference: Date, Time off duty, Train, Eng, Eng & Frmn
After arrival at RH, Time off duty was required and out of town crew members would state location
where they could be reached.
Callers needed to know the work rules that they weren't called before their rest hours were completed.
Also necessary 12 hours rest (over 16 hr day?) or off sick or OK'ing for work, dead heading, etc.
I suspect that in Gunnison, the night engine watchman probably called the engine crews??
Would think at that time there may have been 3 tricks of operators and of them would do the
train crew calls.
On the 1st trick, could have been the Foreman or clerk (doubt he had one) or some other "worthy".
It appears that in Gunnison the telephone system used numerals with letter suffix. (ex:100J or 35W)
Other pages list name of person, whether employee or rooming house owner or outfit car etc.
Also, it seems as though this register (I would think the real train register for the conductor would have
filled out at the depot) covered only the Gunnsion area men: trains to Crested Butte, Baldwin,
over to Montrose, but no (?) East end men unless forced to work off home district.
Looks as though 1943 must have been a tough year snow-wise as one can find the OO listed
along with pilot, eng & fmn and number of engs involved on more than one occasion. Check dates &
times off duty.
The "Train" column was dropped after mid-March 1945 as no passenger trains or lesser class
were operated. Most everything was run as exras or yard (Sw).
Is is enjoyable to look thru these once in a while as the names of enginemen show up that came in
from other terminals for a short term stay, old heads that were at the end of their career or home guards
These two pages were scanned on my Epson V700 photo (one step below a V-750 recommended
by others) and are great to work with.
As for a program I use VueScan - not much $$ for trial & lifetime with free updates as needed.
Chris Ahrens
Reference: Date, Time off duty, Train, Eng, Eng & Frmn
After arrival at RH, Time off duty was required and out of town crew members would state location
where they could be reached.
Callers needed to know the work rules that they weren't called before their rest hours were completed.
Also necessary 12 hours rest (over 16 hr day?) or off sick or OK'ing for work, dead heading, etc.
I suspect that in Gunnison, the night engine watchman probably called the engine crews??
Would think at that time there may have been 3 tricks of operators and of them would do the
train crew calls.
On the 1st trick, could have been the Foreman or clerk (doubt he had one) or some other "worthy".
It appears that in Gunnison the telephone system used numerals with letter suffix. (ex:100J or 35W)
Other pages list name of person, whether employee or rooming house owner or outfit car etc.
Also, it seems as though this register (I would think the real train register for the conductor would have
filled out at the depot) covered only the Gunnsion area men: trains to Crested Butte, Baldwin,
over to Montrose, but no (?) East end men unless forced to work off home district.
Looks as though 1943 must have been a tough year snow-wise as one can find the OO listed
along with pilot, eng & fmn and number of engs involved on more than one occasion. Check dates &
times off duty.
The "Train" column was dropped after mid-March 1945 as no passenger trains or lesser class
were operated. Most everything was run as exras or yard (Sw).
Is is enjoyable to look thru these once in a while as the names of enginemen show up that came in
from other terminals for a short term stay, old heads that were at the end of their career or home guards
These two pages were scanned on my Epson V700 photo (one step below a V-750 recommended
by others) and are great to work with.
As for a program I use VueScan - not much $$ for trial & lifetime with free updates as needed.
Chris Ahrens
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