Railroaders' Nostalgia > Santa Fe Career Mementos

Couple of mementos from my short, two year, Santa Fe career.  First is a "call slip" out of La Junta, I am the guy listed on the bottom.  Second should explain itself.  Enjoy and have a good weekend,
Bryan

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Very cool. FWIW, even though our BNSF call slips get spit out of a computer/printer these days, there's still a place on it for the waycar number. A little relic from the Santa Fe days I guess.

trainjunkie Wrote:
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> Very cool. FWIW, even though our BNSF call slips
> get spit out of a computer/printer these days,
> there's still a place on it for the waycar number.
> A little relic from the Santa Fe days I guess.

Who knows, you might get a shoving platform. 

Chico56 Wrote:
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> Couple of mementos from my short, two year, Santa
> Fe career.  First is a "call slip" out of La
> Junta, I am the guy listed on the bottom.  Second
> should explain itself.  Enjoy and have a good
> weekend,
> Bryan

Thanks for posting.

Typical power for 408/804 at the time: U23C's and SD39's.


Keith_Kevet

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Bernard was our RFE for years.

skinem Wrote:
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> Bernard was our RFE for years.

Was that at Newton?
Bryan

Yes, it was.

skinem Wrote:
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> Yes, it was.

👍

I wish I'd have been on the ball enough to keep a lot of my early papers & correspondence. I didn't even keep any paycheck stubs... :^(

Lance

santafe199 Wrote:
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> I wish I'd have been on the ball enough to keep a
> lot of my early papers & correspondence. I didn't
> even keep any paycheck stubs... :^(
>
> Lance

Probably got yelled at by your tax guy for that.

santafe199 Wrote:
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> I wish I'd have been on the ball enough to keep a
> lot of my early papers & correspondence. I didn't
> even keep any paycheck stubs... :^(
>
> Lance

I hung on to some early stuff, as much by accident as anything else. A couple of check stubs. Some of the study material from my engineer's training class. I kept the train orders from my first engineer's trip...but managed to lose them somewhere.

I will say that when I got married (going on eight years into my career), I told my new wife to never throw anything out that had "Illinois Terminal" on it.  🙂

 

I still have the pay slips and stubs from my career starting in 1960 in Phoenix, as a trainman for SP.  The rate of pay for a road switcher assignment was $21.52 for an 8 hour day.  Later that summer, I was frurloughed and found a vacation relief job as a trainman on the Magma Arizona Railroad at Superior, Arizona.  It paid $19.96 a day but was a six day job, all quoted at $2.49 1/2 per hour.  I probably would have worked for less since it was steam powered!

TIOGA PASS

Norman Orfall
Helendale, CA
TIOGA PASS, a private railcar

Thanks Chico56- good story and memories there. In your 2nd image, I recognize the last two names
Turpen and McAnulty. Both Condrs worked Amtk 4/3 regularly back in those days. Turpen had some artistic 
skills; he made up some Buttons for we OBS crews-- showing a Porter with the Blue Stepbox. I'll 
put a pic of the Button here, (if I can find it among my dusty stacks of Amtk memorabilia.)

Keith_Kevet Wrote:

> Typical power for 408/804 at the time: U23C's and SD39's.

...with an RCE car to control the mid-train helpers.