Extracted from Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Archives.
Name: Orbik, Kajetan Born, Date: 6-7-1880 R.D. Certificate No: 419756
Date |
Occupation |
Station-Department- Division |
Rates of Pay |
Cause Left Service |
Emploment Number/Remarks |
| 7-15-12 | Car Repairman | South Chicago- Motive Power-Chicago | .18 | ||
| 7-16-12 | Car Repairman | South Chicago- Motive Power-Chicago | .19 | ||
| 4-1-13 | Car Repairman | South Chicago- Motive Power-Chicago | .20 | ||
| 7-12-14 | Car Oiler | South Chicago- Motive Power-Chicago | .20 | ||
| 12-1-14 | Car Oiler | Wolfe Lake - Conducting Transportation (Transportation Department)- Chicago | .20 | ||
| 1-27-15 | Furloughed | ||||
| 4-21-15 | Car Repairman | South Chicago- Motive Power-Chicago | ,20 | ||
| 1-12-16 | Resigned | R-9 | |||
| 2-8-16 | Car Repairman | South Chicago- Motive Power-Chicago | .21 | R-11 | |
| 6-10-16 | Resigned | R-10 | |||
| 9-19-17 | Car Oiler | South Chicago- Motive Power-Chicago | .25 | R-54-B | |
| 11-17-17 | Car Builder | South Chicago- Motive Power-Chicago | .315 | ||
| 11-16-17 | Car Builder | South Chicago- Motive Power-Chicago | .325 | R-52-A | |
| 8-1-18 | Car Builder | South Chicago- Motive Power-Chicago | .55 | R-53-B | |
| 10-20-19 | Car Builder | South Chicago- Motive Power-Chicago | .67 | R-55-B Retro. 5-1-19 | |
| 8-1-20 | Car Builder | South Chicago- Motive Power-Chicago | .80 | Retro. 5-1-20 | |
| 7-1-21 | Car Builder | South Chicago- Motive Power-Chicago | .72 | R-52-A | |
| 7-1-22 | Strike | ||||
| 9-18-22 | Freight Carman | South Chicago- Motive Power-Chicago | .63 | R 69-B | |
| 5-16-23 | Freight Carman | South Chicago- Motive Power-Chicago | .66 | R 76-B | |
| 9-1-26 | Freight Carman | South Chicago- Motive Power-Chicago | .68 | R 7540-A | |
| 2-1-29 | Freight Carman | South Chicago- Motive Power-Chicago | .73 | R 7530-B | |
| 7-30-31 | Furloughed | R 7522-B | |||
| 8-31-31 | C.M. Frt. | East Chicago- Motive Power-Chicago Terminal. | .73 | R-160-A | |
| 2-1-33 | [Less 10% of earnings] | ||||
| 3-14-33 | Furloughed | R-160-A |
Personal information about Kajetan Orbik (not in B&O railroad documents):
Kajetan Orbik was born in Tajenko, Poland on 7 August 1879 to Jan Orbik and Franciszka Polkowski. He was one of Stanislaw Orbik's brothers. He immigrated to the US on the ship Main on 20 October 1904. He was listed as 21 single laborer. He was en route to Chicago Illinois to join Jan Orbik living a 8630 Hurley Ave. Kajetan Orbik never married. He died 18 February, 1934 in Chicago Illinois of lung cancer. He also had osteo-arthritis of the spine. He is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Calumet City Illinois.