Oy! [;)]
I didn’t find it interesting at all. Just a waste of time. I would think that someone at the UPHS would know exactly how the BB’s were routed. It may be that I have even read it in the Church book, but, I don’t remember for sure.
If the UPHS was on top of their game, they would find the waybill or freight bill for the movements - giving both the route and if the freight bill the cost of the movement.
Someone might check this, but Schenectady is not on the West Shore, so the “D&H” portion of this move might just be the few miles to connect.
IF anybody saved the paperwork. When I worked for IBM, the company had a three tiered records retention policy based on the legal department’s input. Two years = immediate opeartional records. Seven years = legal and financial records Forever = Legal docunents like charters, minutes of Board meetings, etc. The last were stored in safes in Corporate Legal. The other two were shipped to Iron Mountain’s storage facilities. When I worked in Corporate Finance, I knew the person who managed our account with Iron Mountain and the annual bill we paid for retaining a mountain of information was eye watering. Iron Mountain Facility Provided Data Storage Before The Cloud | The Daily 360 | The New York Times - Bing video The days when you could go into a railroad office and find payroll records from the 1880’s and copies of waybills from 1910 (there was an article in Classic Trains about the experience of one employee working on the task of cleaning out such records and what he found stashed away - and I’m not exagerating with the dates above) ended in the Fifties and early Sixties when corporate America realized there was a cost to this - and. indeed, to the collection and retention of all types of information (the key question, does it improve business results? If not, why collect it and/or retain it?). Some things were taken home by emploees who were railfans or given to fans who asked, some went to libraries, museums and historical societies, the overwheming majority ended up in the dumpster. And don’t expect to find it neatly cataloged. It will be one piece of paper in a bo
BEAUSABRE,
Reminds me of a great older movie titled “Fail Safe”. Ostensibly the film is about an American bomber accidentally being sent into Russia because of a computer glitch caused by the Soviets trying to jam the American radar.
But anyways, Walter Matthau plays a college professor doing consulting with the pentagon. At a dinner party the topic of who would survive ww3 comes up and his answer is “convicts and file clerks.” Convicts, because the worst of them are deep underground, and file clerks pretty much for the same reasons. Plus they’re surrounded by hundreds of tons of paper.
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If the UPHS was on top of their game, they would find the waybill or freight bill for the movemenSts - giving both the route and if the freight bill the cost of the movement.
IF anybody saved the paperwork. When I worked for IBM, the company had a three tiered records retention policy based on the legal department’s input. Two years = immediate opeartional records. Seven years = legal and financial records Forever = Legal docunents like charters, minutes of Board meetings, etc. The last were stored in safes in Corporate Legal. The other two were shipped to Iron Mountain’s storage facilities. When I worked in Corporate Finance, I knew the person who managed our account with Iron Mountain and the annual bill we paid for retaining a mountain of information was eye watering. Iron Mountain Facility Provided Data Storage Before The Cloud | The Daily 360 | The New York Times - Bing video The days when you could go into a railroad office and find payroll records for the 1880’s and copies of waybills from 1910 (there was an article in Classic Trains about the experience of one employee working on the task of cleaning out such records and what he found stashed away - and I’m not exagerating with dates above) ended in the Fifties and early Sixties when corporate America realized there was a cost to this - and. indeed, to the collection and retention of all types of information (the key question, does it improve business results? If not, why collect it and/or retain it?). Some things were taken home by emploees who were railfans or given to fans who asked, some
For the first few years after I hired out, when tied up we were to print out an Hours of Service receipt. I don’t remember having to sign it, it was done on the computer and just a copy of the FRA screen when done. They were using an old box which was the box that the printer paper came in.
When the box was full, someone in the yard management collected them. And according to one eyewitness, after collecting them promptly placed them into the trash can.
Jeff