The Wabash certificate was, no doubt, issued to your GP certifing that he was
qualified on the Wabash rules and special instructions and was therefore able
to operate CB&Q trains over Wabash trackage.
Was your GP an engineer, perhaps, on the old Ottumwa and/or Creston Divisions
where trains between Albia and Des Moines operated in part over Wabash
Trackage. There were, I'm sure, other parts of the Q where Q trains operated
over the Wabash, but the Albia-Des Moines portion was the first to come to
mind.
In the case of joint track or trackage rights, operating crews had to be
examined on the rules and special instructions of the host railroad on a
regular basis, just the same as they did on the Q rules and SI.
Pete Hedgpeth
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