• Vienna Illinois, Mid 50s

  • Discussion relating to the NYC and subsidiaries, up to 1968. Visit the NYCS Historical Society for more information.
Discussion relating to the NYC and subsidiaries, up to 1968. Visit the NYCS Historical Society for more information.

Moderator: Otto Vondrak

  by Roger Hensley
 
Remember when MOW work was mostly done by section gangs? This picture was taken in front of the NYC/Big 4 depot in Vienna, Illinois in the mid 1950's, just before the section gangs were abolished in favor of mechanized track gangs. My memory is just strong enough to recall that two of these men were Bill Simmons and Dugan McCuan.
CAPT Rex Settlemoir

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  by BR&P
 
So nice to see a gang of individual human beings, instead of droids with orange vests, hard hats, safety glasses, ear plugs, and a book of the 8,374 safety rules and procedures, the violation of any one of them being cause for immediate dismissal.