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Posted by randyo on Tue Dec 24 03:44:14 2024, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Happy Holidays 2024, posted by Bill Newkirk on Mon Dec 23 09:31:04 2024. The IRT had a unique seniority setup. Sometime after the IRT took over the Manhattan els, crews were afraid that el crews would pick subway jobs in the winter forcing the subway crews onto the el. Then in the summer, the reverse would take place. As a result the IRT developed separate seniority rosters for the el and the subway. Unlike the subway, which had one seniority roster, each elevated line had its own seniority roster and if an employee wished to pick either from the el to the subway or the other way, he would have to go to the bottom of the seniority list of the line or division he was going to. Even if an employee wanted to pick from the 2nd Ave el to the 3rd Ave el, he would have to go to the bottom of the 3rd Ave seniority list. Most likely by the time the photo was taken, the M/M was probably one of the last remaining “el men.” I did know a M/M from the subway who picked a midnight run on the 3rd Ave el in the 1960s, but that would be because, as el men retired 3rd Ave runs opened up to crews from the Subway Division who wanted to pick there and they would go behind the remaining el men who still worked there. |
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