Eastern Railroad Discussion > Some NYC lineage...Sperry railcar and paychecks.

Anyone know that if the Sperry Railcar is of NYC lineage; I was told it was. And while cleaning out some areas of the house today wife found a cigar box full of my late father's paychecks from his days with the NYC/PC. Have a safe and warm weekend all...

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How often did your dad get paid in those days??

According to rrpicturearchives.com: Ex-NYC #M-11, built in 1928, to SRS 4/19/48.

Gerry



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/14/18 04:40 by GPutz.

Interesting to see the evolution of the check stubs. Not something you see everyday.

Nice to see those old paychecks...

halfmoonharold Wrote:
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> Interesting to see the evolution of the check
> stubs. Not something you see everyday.

Harold, I'll 2nd that. That is really cool to have. Great photo of the Sperry.

Was a good idea to post the his SSAN?

Marty Harrison
Knob Noster, MO

My dad's been dead for 19 years and to answer your question he was paid once a week I remember him telling me...

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/13/18 07:49 by Forever-Railfan-45.

Really neat to see, thanks for posting...

Thanks for sharing.

Social Security number? Railroad Retirement Number?

Victor A. Baird
http://www.erstwhilepublications.com



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/13/18 15:57 by wabash2800.

Again my father has been dead for nineteen years now. THANKS to all who have private messaged me with their concerns. Our family did notify the National Death Index of his passing when he expired; also mom was the next in line for his RR benefits. Again thanks to those that have taken the time to send me private messages via Trainorders.

Forever-Railfan-45 Wrote:
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> Anyone know that if the Sperry Railcar is of NYC
> lineage; I was told it was. And while cleaning out
> some areas of the house today wife found a cigar
> box full of my late father's paychecks from his
> days with the NYC/PC. Have a safe and warm weekend
> all...


Not too shabby, that would be like 94,000 a year in 2017 dollars.

BKLJ611 Wrote:
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> Forever-Railfan-45 Wrote:
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> > Anyone know that if the Sperry Railcar is of
> NYC
> > lineage; I was told it was. And while cleaning
> out
> > some areas of the house today wife found a
> cigar
> > box full of my late father's paychecks from his
> > days with the NYC/PC. Have a safe and warm
> weekend
> > all...
>
>
> Not too shabby, that would be like 94,000 a year
> in 2017 dollars.

If those were weekly paychecks, there had to be a LOT of overtime. The highest paid B&OCT operator job was $125.10 per week at that time.

TAW

TAW Wrote:
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> BKLJ611 Wrote:
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> > Forever-Railfan-45 Wrote:
> >
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>
> > -----
> > > Anyone know that if the Sperry Railcar is of
> > NYC
> > > lineage; I was told it was. And while
> cleaning
> > out
> > > some areas of the house today wife found a
> > cigar
> > > box full of my late father's paychecks from
> his
> > > days with the NYC/PC. Have a safe and warm
> > weekend
> > > all...
> >
> >
> > Not too shabby, that would be like 94,000 a
> year
> > in 2017 dollars.
>
> If those were weekly paychecks, there had to be a
> LOT of overtime. The highest paid B&OCT operator
> job was $125.10 per week at that time.
>
> TAW

In looking at those pay stubs again, I noticed that the physical pre-printed check number on the stub was also printed by the computer printer about 2/3 of the way down on the right, on top of some preprinted information. But only on the top two stubs, not all three. Having been a mainframe computer consultant for most of my career, I've written parts of multiple payroll systems and payroll check-printing at two of them. One of the things we HAD to do was to print what check number the computer 'thought' was being printed physically on the check itself as well as on the stub. The reason is the check register. If the computer 'thinks' it's printing on check number 12345 and it's really 12346, then the check register would be incorrect and cause the accounting department untold nightmares trying to balance the company checkbook. Perhaps that's what drove the NYC to start printing the check numbers on the check and stub.

Way back when, there were 'alignment' fake-checks that were printed by the computer to ensure that the horizontal and vertical placement of the continuous form check stock was accurate, eg, put each item in 'the correct place'. Printers could be manually adjusted up and down and left and right to do this. Once the fake-checks printed with xxxxxx's are all aligned, then the fake stock gets removed and the 'real' check stock inserted in the same tractor-feed holes. Then, on the console, the number of the first check to be printed is entered, and the real checks get printed from there. I recall one night when the computer operator typed in the correct first number but put the 2nd check in the tractor feed. Fortunately, like all good operators, they'd print a 3-4 checks, stop the printer, and then verify that the preprinted numbers on the checks matched the computer printed numbers on the same check. Realizing his mistake, he cancelled that run of checks and started over, this time with the 'new' correct check number. It took a couple of phone calls the next morning to explain why the torn-in-half checks were at the top of the payroll check pile from the night before.