I was wandering thru some OER's looking for data in support of Rupert's big Q
frt car project and gleaned the following:
Per May "25 qrtly Register (sumaries of all RR's, officials, etc). The Q's
fleet of 1427 passenger cars was the 10th largest of all RR's
(and does not include C&S/FtW&D). In contrast, UP had 1396, GN had 1032, NP
1021. Q's was 2.04% of a national fleet of 69,961.
In terms of locomotives, Q had 1968 - the 6th largest fleet; UP had 1959, GN
1328 & NP 1428. Q's was 2.57% of 76,671 nationally.
Freight cars? Q had the 7th largest group: 69,288 (plus 769 waycars, 1682
ballast cars & 2973 MOW) . UP had 52,506; GN 53,104
& NP 47,692. Of those Q frt cars: 29,968 box [27,905 plain box, 2053 auto
box, 9 barrel & 1 furniture]; 27,079 open top [22,112 drop
bottom gon's, 4961 flat botton gons & 6 hoppers]; 12,241 "others" [6515 sgl
deck stock, 762 dbl deck stock, 3285 reefers, 1347 flats,
330 gen service tanks & 2 special service tanks]. Q's share nationally was
2.61% of all revenue frt cars. (not counting 264,983
privately owned frt cars in addition to the 2,650,686 RR-owned)
Now for a 1919 USRA OER; i.e. which smaller RR's were assigned to the Q by the
Fed's (larger RR's were given responsiblity for
smaller RR's - if they were the only outside connection, the small RR was
theirs, if 2 or more larger RR's connected it was usually on
a basis of who did the most business with each other). The Q had 25 shortlines
& interurbans assigned (I show date of eventual
abandonment where known & location if not obvious - no, I wasn't when most of
these hit the dust either!)
Aurora, Elgin & Chicago (became CA&E); Bevier & Southern; Chicago, Aurora &
DeKalb (Aurora); Creston, Winterset & Des Moines;
Fox & ILlinois Union (Aurora); Galesburg Great Eastern; Galesburg & Kewanee
Electric; Gaklesburg, Rockford & Northern (became
Hooppole, Yorktown & Tampico); Hannibal Connecting*; Illinois Central Electric
(Canton); Illinois Midland; Iowa Southern (Centerville);
Iowa & South Western (Clarinda); LaSalle & Bureau County; Lee County Electric;
Macomb, Industry & Littleton; Oregon & Interurban
(Forest City, MO); Peoples Traction (Galesburg); Peru, LaSalle & Deer Park
(LaSalle, IL); Rock Island & Southern; St. Louis &
Hannibal ("44); Shelby County ("28) & Shelby North West ("38 MO); Tabor &
Northern ("34 IA) and Wyoming ("52). *Interstingly no
interchange shown by the Q in their OER entry!
The following small lines were assigned to a competitor of the Q: Billings &
Central Montana (NP); Muscatine, Burlington & Southern
(RI); LaCrosse & South Eastern (GB&W)
The following were not assigned to any RR: Rockport, Langon & Northern ("41);
Sioux City Terminal; Davenport, Rock Island & NW;
Union Terminal (St. Joe) and Chicago, Ottawa & Peoria. The S.C. & Union
Terminal RR's were not shown in OER (an occaisional
experience for very small RR's) but are shown on the Burlington's interchange
list. The S.C. Terminal existed as an independent in to
BN times as a matter of fact and former trackage than split between BN & Milw.
These small feeders to the Q, especially the ones wholly connected to the Q,
would all be good subjects for brief articles in the
Burlington Bulletin. We always need authors - what do you say??? Gerald
Iow
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