Fireman during excursion era

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Thanks for your replies

John Rhodes

On 8/17/06, nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

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>  The assigned fireman on the operating district ( If one was called for

> the train ) was payed at Firemans rate for the assigned run.

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> Yes there is still a union rate for fireman, used mostly for engineer

> trainees that have been in training over a certain period of time.

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> Back to the excursion era,even when the railroad called a fireman he

> usually just went along for the ride,while the locomotive was actually fired

> by a fireman from the Steam Dept.

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> John Barnett

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> *From:* nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org [mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org]

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> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 16, 2006 1:21 PM

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> *Subject:* Fireman during excursion era

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> All,

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> During the excursion era, how was the fireman paid.  IE what pay rate,

> engineer, conductor, etc.  is therestill a union rate for fireman?

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> Thanks for your help

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> John Rhodes

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