Hi all,
Below is part of a thread appearing on another Yahoo! Groups list
concerning amount of home road cars vs. other road cars on a railroad. The
statement below refers to the Pennsy RR and I wondered if there was a
similar attitude on the CB&Q and, if so, towards whom - or not.
Thanks,
forwarded thread follows ............
There ARE other rules to follow, though. Most roads had "friendly
interchange partners" and "adversaries". Many roads paralleled each
other. And many types of shipments tended to be more "local" in
nature... especially in the classic era. An example of these
restrictions would be the fact that B&O and NYC cars were relatively
rare on the Pennsy... they served many of the same geographic areas,
and they tended to be hostile to one another. Even if the B&O
originated a car for a customer on a Pennsy line, you can be sure
that the B&O would route it in such a way that it spent as little
time as possible on the PRR.
Paul Kossart - Peru, Illinois, USA
BRHS, TP&WHS, La Salle & Bureau County Model Railroad Club
Modeling the fictional CB&Q Illiniwek River Branch in HO in the 1960's.
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