Quieter location for sleeping????
Charlie Vlk
----- Original Message -----
From: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] waycar internal life
> 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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