Railroaders' Nostalgia > Railroader's Get Well Card on the SP

I'm a guy who has little appreciation for the get well cards found in stores, so often made my own. Here's one.

John Bauer III, Trainmaster at Salinas, CA on the Southern Pacific, became hospitalized. He was soon to be released and his return to duty was not far off. 

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Love it ! Perfect for JB3.

Posted from Android

Very cool.

Haha! Keep at it, man! Nice to explore the lighter side of things.

Tom Loftus
Omaha, NE

where i worked, in the yardmasters office, someone took a piece of 2x6, carved it out like an old time tomb stone, with the inscription "years of service award", right in the middle was a rusty lag screw, stuck in at an odd angle. 

You guys must have liked your managers a lot more then we did, ours weren't worth the effort to even draw the cartoon.

PHall Wrote:
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> You guys must have liked your managers a lot more
> then we did, ours weren't worth the effort to even
> draw the cartoon.

80% of ours aren’t either.

Regards

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Is that one of Jack Niehaus'  drawings? He did a lot of railroad cartoons.

The sketch is by my own hand. Don't know Jack Niehaus.

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HardYellow Wrote:
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> Is that one of Jack Niehaus'  drawings? He did a
> lot of railroad cartoons.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/09/25 18:13 by Westbound.

Westbound Wrote:
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> The sketch is by my own hand. Don't know Jack
> Niehaus.
>
> To learn more about anyone posting on Trainorders
> just click on the Author's name above his post. I
> encourage everyone to click on "Public Profile" on
> the left
> side column and give some information about
> yourself.
>
> HardYellow Wrote:
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> > Is that one of Jack Niehaus'  drawings? He did
> a
> > lot of railroad cartoons.

Jack was a San Joaquin Engineer worked out of Bakersfield for yeas. I Believe, after the UP merger, he moved up to Roseville.

Jack did move up to Roseville after the "UP Hub Agreement" was implemented. There were a total of 8 Locomotive Engineers with San Joaquin Seniority that came up to run off the San Joaquin Seniority miles in the 289 mile pool Roseville to Bakersfield.

sp3204 Wrote:
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> Jack did move up to Roseville after the "UP Hub
> Agreement" was implemented. There were a total of
> 8 Locomotive Engineers with San Joaquin Seniority
> that came up to run off the San Joaquin Seniority
> miles in the 289 mile pool Roseville to
> Bakersfield.

Malella
Brainless Bayless
Clang clang Louie Stibbard went to Portola
Rueben Negrette ? He bounced around more I think he went to Amtrak.
Jack Niehaus

Thanks BLE692 I worked in the LA area and didn't really know the Bakersfield based engineers.
Plus a few others

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/13/25 10:36 by SanJoaquinEngr.

I think there were 7 San Joaquin engineers who went to Roseville in '99 when the hub went in and they got some spaces in the Roseville-Fresno/Bakersfield RE01 pool.

RJ Malella
JS Niehaus
RD Mullaly
DW Bayless
JB Davis
DA Arellano
DE Epps

ble692 Wrote:
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> I think there were 7 San Joaquin engineers who
> went to Roseville in '99 when the hub went in and
> they got some spaces in the
> Roseville-Fresno/Bakersfield RE01 pool.
>
> RJ Malella
> JS Niehaus
> RD Mullaly
> DW Bayless
> JB Davis
> DA Arellano
> DE Epps

Did John Edwards stay in Bakersfield? In 2001 I traded to the Tucson wiht Paula Peters.

I think JD went back to Clowntown. Because he didn't have SJ seniority.

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JDE stayed in Bakertucky until he retired. His not having SJ seniority ended up working to his advantage. Post hub, the Bakersfield-Lathrop RE28 pool was split between SJ and Stockton spaces. But nobody from Roseville/Stockton went to Bako at the time of the merger, so the Stockton spaces in the pool just went to the unprotected dovetailed roster. And while JDE never had a chance of holding the SJ spaces, his LA date was good and he beat out the other SJ guys in Bako who couldn't hold the SJ spaces and were also using the dovetailed roster for the ST spaces.

As ble692 explained above no Stockton Engineers moved to Bakersfield which was the Home Terminal of the Z pool to Lathrop at that time. I believe if memory serves me there were 9 spaces in that pool with 4 San Joaquin spaces and 5 Stockton spaces as they called them. John and I were great friends and when he was home in Bakersfield and I was at my away from home terminal in Bakersfield out of Roseville he would pick me up at the Clarion where we stayed and we would grab a meal. He was running off LA miles which was his seniority district as an Engineer on the Bakersfield to West Colton pool. When that Z pool started all 9 spaces were bid in by San Joaquin seniority Engineers, including the 5 Stockton spaces. Some time down the road we were having lunch together at his favorite Mexican Restaurant in Bakersfield. A beer or two might have been drunk when I said you should get the hell off that Tehachapi pool and work that nice and flat Z pool of 231 miles. He tells me that being an Engineer with LA Division Seniority he can't bid that in. I then explain to him that he surely can't touch those 4 San Joaquin spaces because of protection but that there are no protected Sockton Engineers on those 5 other Stockton spaces and they would go straight seniority. He does a little "secret" checking and verifies that I am correct. Not long after John is is the Z pool. I believe there was some consternation after that move among the San Joaquin Brothers. John " Steamjockey on this site" and I were such good fans and I always felt good that I passed that information on to him! He's been gone some years now and I miss him dearly! High greens Brother, I will get my lifter into the clear for you.

Craig

SanJoaquinEngr Wrote:
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> sp3204 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Jack did move up to Roseville after the "UP Hub
> > Agreement" was implemented. There were a total
> of
> > 8 Locomotive Engineers with San Joaquin
> Seniority
> > that came up to run off the San Joaquin
> Seniority
> > miles in the 289 mile pool Roseville to
> > Bakersfield.
>
> Malella
> Brainless Bayless
> Clang clang Louie Stibbard went to Portola
> Rueben Negrette ? He bounced around more I think
> he went to Amtrak.
> Jack Niehaus
>
> Thanks BLE692 I worked in the LA area and didn't
> really know the Bakersfield based engineers.
> Plus a few others
>
> Posted from Android

Hey Dag, any idea whatever became of that screwball sidekick of Ruben Negrete, Larry Vincent?

Brian B.