Nudge Wrote:
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> All I know is what happened between San Luis
> Obispo & LA. George McCarron (past local Chairman)
> & I were interviewed by the local TV that
> afternoon. By then everyone had been served and
> the pickets had been pulled down.
>
> We have had other strikes called over the years
> and one was started by the MofW on a road back
> east after being locked out. Some Divisions waited
> to hear from Cleveland. Others went out as
> planned.
>
> The longest was "HATE WEEK" The UTU went out and
> closed everything down. Officers were trying to
> run trains, etc. The SP threw out all the
> agreements. We had trainman winding up in
> Dunsmuir, Fresno, all over the system.
>
> I will look and see if I still have that time
> book. It would have the run No, (my guess is a
> helper) who my Engineer was and how much I made.
>
> Nudge

Are you saying that people not qualified on "system wide" territory were running track speed trains during "hate week" !?

..and Earth did not end!?

I want that world back!