David,
Pretty good chance that the car frames were handed off to the Wabash
and then to ATSF, or possably MOPAC and then ATSF to the So. Calif.
auto factories.
George
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<dpj1974@j...> wrote:
> Listers,
>
> Mike Spoor's Volume 1 of the All-Color series mentions that the New
> York Central (Peoria & Eastern) was a major Q connection at the
> Peoria Gateway. A good deal of the traffic interchanged to them
> likely included cattle bound for eastern slaughterhouses. I know
> that the P&E's night freight out of East Peoria to Indianapolis
> (#90?) was handling 5-6 stock cars each weekday as late as the Fall
> of 1963.
>
> It has come to my attention that the Peoria & Eastern handed off,
> possibly to the Q at Peoria, as many as 6-7 gondolas at time loaded
> with auto frames (two rows stacked vertically but leaning forward
on
> a U-shaped brace at the front end of each car). Here's some
> additional info about this traffic:
>
> - Hauled in 600000-series NYC 45-ft(?) gondolas.
> - Shipments probably originated at a Fisher Body (GM) plant in
> Indiana, Michigan or Ohio.
> - Most cars consigned to GM assembly plant in South Gate,
California
> (served by Southern Pacific).
> - Shipments were probably handled in the late 1940's, 1950's and
> into the 1960's before dedicated California-bound auto parts trains
> became the norm.
>
> I was wondering if anyone on this list remembered seeing these
> shipments on the Q somewhere between Peoria, Kansas City or Omaha
> and Denver, etc. I have confirmation that the Chicago &
Northwestern
> did not handle this business and a post to the Rock Island list
> resulted in no responses.
>
> Any comments, corrections and additions desired.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> David P. Jordan
> Peoria, Illinois
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