David,
Late 1965 or early 1966. By then the meat business was already
starting it's decline and that was a fair proportion of the Peoria
traffic.
There were also some issues regarding CB&Q's handling of this
traffic. Morrell in Ottumwa complained that "LC70" would
pick up their Eastbound traffic and that the Congress Park cars
would stay on the train and make connections but the Peoria cars
set out at Galesburg would not. Think that their threat was that
they would route everything via Peoria and short-haul the CB&Q.
Think the truckers resolved that issue and the plant closed anyway.
Russ
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From: "David Jordan" <dpj1974@insightbb.com>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, 15 May, 2005 15:54
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Question about run-through trains
> >I know of no "run-through" freights going West via the route
>>indicated.
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>>CB&Q did accommodate a NYC request to have it's main transfer
>>from CB&Q powered with their units. This was a result of both
>>the NYC and PRR getting out of some of their local agreements
>>and using road crews to handle traffic directly to and from Cicero.
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>>Since this change was purely operational I doubt that any traffic
>>was solicited with this operation in mind. I do know for sure
>>that at least one customer threatened to pull their traffic off the
>>CB&Q because their cars were put on this train Eastbound out of
>>Galesburg. CB&Q did as requested.
>
> Thanks, Russ!
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> I wasn't sure of the details. I couldn't find any reference in the
> Operating Data Sheets. Can you approximate a year that this change took
> place? It seems that the Q took a hit in traffic on their Peoria line in
> the mid-1960's and wondered if there was a relationship.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> DPJ
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