Gerald,
One really interesting number (at least to me) in your information from
the 1925 OER is the total number of locomotives in service nation wide.
At that time, your information shows 76, 671 locomotives, undoubtedly
most were steam. After complete dieselization, the total diesel fleet
was about 25,000 units. Today, that number is less than 20,000 and yet,
I believe gross ton miles today, exceed the GTM at that time.
Interesting efficiency improvement and probably one reason why RRs are
still viable. Thanks for the information. Sure shows how prominent the
Q was in the U.S. rail picture. No wonder, GN and NP hung onto the
stock.
Bill Barber
On Friday, January 23, 2004, at 10:24 PM, CBQ@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 06:58:46 -0000
> From: "gaedgar66" <vje68@hotmail.com>
> Subject: Misc historic CB&Q facts
>
> 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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