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Legal or not I used to see moves like that every so often when I worked as a clerk on the UP in the 70s..(saw other roads do it too) You've got to remember that a crew was guaranteed 8 hours pay once they were called to work. The faster they got done, the faster they got to go home and still got paid for a full shift. There were crews that got their chores done in three hours and then went home. Tricks like the "flying switch" could take hours off a shift and many of those boys didn't mind bending the rules to get a good "quit" (go home early)
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