Tim
Must have been Summer of '74 or '75 I caught a first trick off the extra board
to work the C&I in Cicero. You handled everything from Aurora to St. Croix.
Didn't have a whole lot of traffic and had an empty headed north from Savanna.
As the empty train was going thru the power switch at Galena four cars derailed
blocking both mainlines. We still had a roundhouse complete with a foreman at
Savanna and he took a bridge derrick up to Galena and rerailed the cars
cleaning them up before second trick came to work. So they could give some
trouble. Tac trains use to run across the C&I or Around the Horn(Savanna south
to Denrock then to Mendota) due to tonnage problems for Burns Harbor.
sjh
----- Original Message -----
From: Tim VanMersbergen
To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 9:23 PM
Subject: [BRHSlist] Iron ore trains on the CB&Q
Greetings group,
I am looking for information on the ore trains that ran to Granite
City from Minnesota off the GN in the 1968-1970 period. I'm looking
at possibly modeling this movement in the area between East Dubuque
and Savanna, IL.
How often did they run, what was the typical tonnage, and what was
the usual power for these moves?
Did the empties return as a solid train, or on regular trains, and if
a solid train of empties, what was typical power for those?
Was it raw ore, or taconite in this time period?
Finally, given the wide experiences in this group, would anybody have
any anecdotes about running these trains in any era? These kind of
first-person stories are one of the best parts of this group and a
fantastic source of information.
Thanks,
Tim VanMersbergen
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