The railroads did indeed have such agreements. In
BB#35, I have a picture of the PRR wrecker, from East
St. Louis, cleaning up the wreck at Woodlawn. And of
course, the Centralia derrick was used for wrecks,
between East St. Louis and Princeton IN, on the
Southern, for many years. In the late 60's, the IC
derrick from Paducah, was used to clean up a coal
train derailment at Metropolis, (north of CB&Q Jct.,
not on the P&I).
John
--- Virginia Edgar <vje68@h...> wrote:
>
> Why was the PRR asked to loan a wrecker? Assume the
> Q's C&A one was
> otherwise occupied or ??? Did the Q have reciprocal
> aggreements with other
> RR's to borrow cranes when necessary? An old RI
> employee told me there was
> such an agreement in force in Des Moines as Rock
> kept a wrecker there but
> nearest Q one was quite a distance; conversely the Q
> helped RI elsewhere in
> Iowa with the Creston wrecker. Anyone have pics,
> stories of Q wreckers
> off-line or other foreign ones besides this PRR
> event? I have a book of the
> Q's agreements for system detour routes (Q on to
> foreign lines &
> vice-a-versa) but this wrecker incident is new to
> me. Tks, Gerald
>
>
>
>
>
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