[PRCo] Shifting Divisions

[Jim Holland]

Ken!

	I don't know what the rules of seniority were like on ({[pat]}) but I
doubt there would be much moving around and doubt too many people would
move to SHJ.
	Much would depend on personal circumstances like family and housing and
a probably increase in commuting time.  And once roots are established,
that makes it all the more difficult to change.
	It would be very easy for me - relative to Pgh. - to make a change into
different divisions - addition of just 15-min commute time over present
to any of the other divisions whereas that addition could be
30-60--minutes in Pgh.  Yet in 25-years I have done so only once!(:=>)
	Besides, the transition wouldn't be much different than hiring a
totally new employee and placing that one on rails first!(:=>)

	What caused a big shift here in SF is new equipment - advent of lrvs
and subway operation appealed to seniors who see this as light duty! 
And it is assumed that if the new ETI-Skodas go to Potrero first that
senior operators from Presidio will desert(one or two *s's*??!)  Won't
be me, though; I have operated the new coaches in testing and if I don't
operate them in service, I won't be disappointed!
	I have  *thought*  it would be nice to spend my last year on rails -
PCCs - but don't really know if I want to hassle with that change!  And
while I toy with the idea of gutterliners because I am weary of TCs, I
have thought that for several years and don't know if I shall make the
move!

> Kenneth Josephson wrote:

> As the streetcar network retrenchment during PAT's early years shook things up,  it
> may have forced motormen who usually handled street-running lines to the South Hills
> lines. These guys had to deal with block signals, etc, more frequently than on
> lines, say, serving the East End. I imagine these was a period of adjustment for
> these guys.

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James B. Holland

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