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Re: Turning the Zephyrs

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Subject: Re: Turning the Zephyrs
From: "Ed DeRouin" <PIXELS@A...>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 02:28:21 -0000
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John:

It sounds like you need a good book covering operations at CUS!
8-)

Please be patient. I have met and interviewed more former CUS 
and RR employees than I could have imaginged. Since the 
announcement was prepared, say, in the last six months, they 
have come out of the woodwork!

The last chapter is being written now. It will look into how mail, 
baggage, and express were handled. Heck, it'll even explain the 
difference! Once the text is set, I can begin layout, finalize details 
with a printer, establish a retail price, and make a pre-publication 
offer. I think it is safe to say that the book will be out by 
March-------- of next year.

Now, to amplify Norm's answer. The chase engine pulled the 
emptied cars south over South Branch Bridge, if the train was 
long enough. Most were. This move might also require a signal 
from the C&WI at Twenty First Street, if the move would fowl the 
plant. The shove up the south wye would commence with a 
highball from the 17th Street switch tender. Union Avenue Tower 
would line the move to the wash rack, which was located south 
of the mains and west of the tower. Once clean, an eastward 
move would pull across the Union Avenue plant and into A yard.





--- In BRHSlist@y..., "Norm_Andersen" <Norm_Andersen@m...> 
wrote:
> A switch engine coupled onto the rear and took them for a ride 
around the wye and through the car wash!
> 
> Norm
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Sauer, John 
> To: 'BRHSList' 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 14:18 PM
> Subject: [BRHSlist] Turning the Zephyrs
> 
> 
> 
> With all the books and stuff I have, I guess I should know this, 
but I
> don't. After the Zephyrs were unloaded at Chicago Union 
Station, how were
> the cars turned for the westbound trips?
> 
> John Sauer
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