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[CBQ] 82 Car Mail Train on CB&Q in 1944

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Subject: [CBQ] 82 Car Mail Train on CB&Q in 1944
From: "Mel Carlson" <mgcarlson@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 00:35:35 -0000
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I came across an interesting article in the Nov. 1944 issue of 
Trains (Magazine) p.4. 82-CAR MAIL TRAIN. I will quote the entire 
article: "Probably the longest individual mail train in history was 
run from Chicago to Council Bluffs Transfer on the night of 
October 17 by the Burlington Route. It consisted of 82 mail and 
refrigerator cars loaded with Christmas packages for 
servicemen overseas and hauled on passenger-train schedule 
by a 4-8-4 steam locomotive as far as Galesburg and then by a 
2-10-4. The refrigerator cars were used because many of them 
are moving westward empty at this season.
     "This and a then-record 70 car train October 13 were part of 
the largest movement the Q has handled in all the 60 years it 
has been moving the transcontinental mails between Chicago 
and Council Bluffs Transfer. More than 1200 cars were handled 
between September 21 and October 17, and the largest day's 
movement was 103 cars on October 15."

Wow! What an accomplishment for the CB&Q. Railroading at its 
best!

Mel Carlson
Grayslake, IL
On the Milwaukee Road J Line





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