At Centralia, there was the "Beardstown" waycar track
and the "Centralia" waycar track for the two road
freight trainmen/conductor pools. I never could figure
why the Beardstown track was closer to the yard
office. Looks like the local boys would have put
their's on the near track!
John M.
--- Russell Strodtz <vlbg@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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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