Got a lot of UP and BN SD-40's in 1973-4 at Congress Park they went into
Cicero on the Congo. Caught a SCL unit in the yard at the bottom of the
hill the Harbor had left there. Also interchanged the last of the NP Alco
switch engines thru the Park.
CSXT now brings the -??? on road trains to Cicero. Some get cut off and
sent to the roundhouse
sjh
----- Original Message -----
From: "fahey0" <barrybmlv@sbcglobal.net>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 9:42 AM
Subject: [CBQ] Re: New Engines
> Actually the IHB probably should get credit for picking up all of the
> new EMD locomotives since their tracks ran on the west side of the
> plant. I think that UP engines were pushed up the hill to the small
> CB&Q yard at Congress Park and then were dragged down to the Cicero
> yard. I think that they were then placed somewhere near the front of
> freight trains headed to Pacific Junction. I don't think that all of
> the lettering was necessarily done by EMD. I think that I read UP did
> the rest of it themselves. Could be wrong about that.
>
>
> --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Jerry Krueger" <jakrueg@n...> wrote:
> > --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Bob & Marian Sorensen" <rksmes@e...>
> > wrote:
> > > Group: This may be off the normal subject but is a question that
> > I have often wondered. In the delivery of a new engine from the
> > final assembly plant, is the engine run or is it a dead haul? And,
> > if it is run, does the owner receive compensation from the roads it
> > is run over?
> > > I think that the CB&Q was the only road into GM when they did
> > final assembly in Illinois, so new engines must have been delivered
> > to transfer points.
> > >
> > >
> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> > In Dave Lotz's article in Diesel Era about Q GP30s he pointed out
> > that they were delivered in Lincoln, NE because Nebraska had no
> > sales tax at the time. Hence, I would assume that they were towed
> > dead from LaGrange to Lincoln, other wise IL or IA would argue that
> > they had been placed in service and try to collect their sales
> tax.
> > And at the price of locomotives, it would be a substantial amount.
> > As a tax accountant I found this interesting and to be a nice be
> tax
> > planning and strategy. Purely legitimate.
> >
> > Jerry
>
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