John,
Back before the days of pooled waycars the waycar was changed at
every crew change point. Even a location like North La Crosse with
more daily passengers movements than freight it would not have been
unusual to have over 20 assigned waycars. It was also not unusual to
have 3 or 4 old 40 or 50 foot flats that were actually kept on the waycar
track.
To make the switching easier some locations would have separate
tracks for assigned waycars from the East and West pools.
Right now at North La Crosse the track that stub ends at the office and
is used to park the yard and local engines is called the "West Waycar
Track". Would have been right along side the C&NW interchange.
Only problem is that I never did figure out where the "East Waycar
Track" was.
It's not easy to hide a track at North La Crosse because the whole yard
is built on a filled in swamp. If an area is not filled in you can be sure
there was never a track at that location. Some day I might figure that one
out. If I just had to pick a spot today I would say along the roundhouse
lead just on the basis that that's the only place it could have been.
Russ
----- Original Message -----
From: "JLBender" <jlbender@indianvalley.com>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 17 September, 2003 11:11
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] waycar internal life
> Ben,
>
> In my area, at least, I would have to agree with Russell......NORMALLY (well
> over 90 percent of the
time...enough for me to call it normal) the waycars were short roof (cupola)
forward. I refer specifically
to the Aurora-Streator branch, as well as the suburban areas around Aurora, the
main through Plano,
Sandwich, etc., and the main through Hinckley, Waterman etc. In the 50's and
60's, at least it was NOT a
common sight to see the waycar with the long roof forward. It did happen, I
have seen the waycars long roof
forward, but not very often. It was, as Russell stated, somewhat of a policy to
put a low car immediately
ahead of the waycar.
>
> John
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