Hard nosed Yankee (Boston) management..... necessity (frugal cash flow) was
the mother of invention and it became an integral part of the Q Corporate
Culture.
The Q was one of the leading R&D railroads, right up there with the PRR.
Aurora had a great deal of research going on in all fields of interest to
the railroad.....materials, experimental design of equipment, etc... from at
least the mid-eighties onward. It was a leader in motive power design (ever
notice that the stock Mikado and Santa Fe from Baldwin look very much like
the O1 and M1?).
Charlie
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> To add a non-railroad specific question to the conversation, What made
the
> CB&Q corporate culture so innovative?
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> Tom Mitchell
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> From: Charlie Vlk [mailto:cvlk@a...]
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> And, according to a conversation I had with Al Hoffman, the first in
Chicago
> to experiment with push-pull operation..... they MU'd gas electrics on
each
> end of a string of commuter coaches.....in the 1920's.....
> Charlie
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> > > How many more firsts?
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> > CB&Q may not have been the first, but they converted to all coal-bruning
> locomotives very early - before the start of the Civil War.
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> > They were also the first road with modern gallery commuter cars, which
may
> also have been the first HEP arrangements.
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