Duncan, In the latter years, the northbound local would come up the
mainline and there were two crossovers right around the vicinity of the
Hubinger tank spots that went from the main to # 1 and from # 1 to # 2
track. As I recall we would set out in # 1 and pick up off of # 2. I'll
get some more details on the southbound 2nd class train in the evening as I
recall the switch engine grabing our waycar and the rear end of our train
and setting that out and doubling our waycar to the pickup and back to the
train. More later, Archie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Duncan Cameron" <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
To: "BRHSlist" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 12:06 PM
Subject: [CBQ] switching practices
> I've been trying to decide how faithfully to try to reproduce the Keokuk
yard (reduced number of tracks is a given). At the time I'm modelling,
there are two freight trains daily -- one northbound, one southbound. From
the operating data sheets published by the BRHS, it looks as though the
Keokuk cars would be on the head-end of both trains. Can anyone suggest to
me the moves that would be involved in removing these cars and placing them
in the yard for local delivery, and as well those moves that would be
involved in placing outbound cars into the train. I believe Keokuk had an
assigned yard switcher so I suspect that it would do the work rather than
the road engine (I may be wrong on that though). Specifically, I'd like to
know where the road engine might wait while the cars were being switched in
and out, whether the waycar would be removed (there doesn't seem to be a
waycar track in Keokuk), and whether the whole train would likely have been
pulled onto the switching
> lead or only part with the rest left on the main or an arrival track.
The more detailed the responses the better, as it will let me know exactly
which tracks and switches I need to include and which can be "compressed"
out.
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