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Re: Tuscarora Almanac for October 7 |
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Posted by randyo on Mon Oct 8 15:06:54 2018, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for October 7, posted by BusRider on Mon Oct 8 13:51:20 2018. For the most part with the opening of Chrystie St in November 1967 although since the IRT picks normally did not go into effect at the same time as the BMT and IND the IRT change might have been a bit earlier or later. What was interesting about the way it went in is that the C/R division of TWU dis not OK the agreement at the same time as the M/M so the C/Rs retained swings a bit longer, I think till the next pick in the spring of 1968. The BMT was the first division to do away with the swings and I never recall seeing any swing jobs on the BMT as early as 1960 except for certain platform C/R jobs that were set aside for 2nd position C/Rs who never qualified as C/Rs in charge. On the IND and IRT, switchmen (Yd M/M) were used to lay up and put in trains whereas on the BMT road crews would put their own trains in before the rush and lay them up after. As originally instituted, the putin/layup tasks known as “T/C” for transfer cars took the place of one of the road trips that would be made by crews without T/C. Thus on the Brighton Exp on which the normal complement of runs was 3 round trips to 57 St, a crew with T/C would do a put in and 2 trips, 2 trips and a layup or in some cases a layup or put in between the 2 trips but never the full 3 trips and any sort of T/C. In many cases if an arriving crew had something like 2 hours of T/C at the end of a run, the crew would just lay up the train and the Yd/mast would not expect any more work from the crew and so the crew got an early break. This concept delighted the IRT and IND crews who voted overwhelmingly for the change since it was a package deal that combined the institution of runs with T/C and the elimination of the swings. Also the changes over the years that no longer required NYCTS employees to live in NY City meant that it was not as convenient for an employee who lived in the suburbs to go home midday and return in the afternoon the way it was back when many employees lived in walking distance or a reasonable travel distance from their reporting locations. In any case when the swing runs were eliminated and runs with T/C were instituted most employees were pleased. Due to conflicts withe interpretation of the term T/C, that section of the work programs was changed to “WAA” or work as assigned. Over the years primarily due to the increase in allowed overall work time, many of the trips that had WAA in lieu of a trip now included the full complement of trips per line with the WAA a s either a put in or layup in addition, not exactly in the spirit of what the crews voted for in 1967. |
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