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Nostalgia & History > SPDate: 12/21/14 20:42 SP Author: drumwrencher .
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 02/11/15 06:04 by drumwrencher. Date: 12/22/14 06:54 Re: SP Documents Author: ATSF3751 drumwrencher Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Okay, last for tonite. I thought some of you SP > folks might get a kick out of some of this old > stuff. > > 1: SP Trip Pass books, Bay Area > > 2: The back side. Did the SP really ever care > about passenger convenience?! Back then, maybe... Yes, SP put it's best foot forward trying to attract and keep customers until around the mid-1950's. Date: 12/22/14 07:10 Re: Sp Documents Author: hogheaded That $163.02 was pretty darn good money for a "half" in 1946. This illustrates what ultimately kept most of us foamers working for the railroad after much of the glamor of the job had worn off. I remember the San Francisco Freight Brakeman Extra Board in the late 1970's a having a "guarantee" (guaranteed earnings) of $1618/mo. I could barely comprehend that much money (and that I was actually making well over two grand), especially since I had, a few years before, been managing a hobby shop for $6.50/hour. The money is what kept me interested in the job on all of those long nights that I fought to stay awake while working in crappy, filthy conditions - being a foamer was not nearly enough for me, though I wish that it had been.
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