John,
Thanks, you certainly answered my question. I appreciate the reply.
Bill Barber
On Saturday, August 6, 2005, at 05:56 AM, CBQ@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> essage: 10
> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 07:50:11 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Digest Number 2486
>
> In the pre-unit train days, most but not all Q coal
> trains were solid Q's. There were several ways foreign
> cars would show up. First of course, were the cars
> that the Q had received as a loads(bear in mind,
> hoppers and gons could loaded with other things beside
> coal). These cars, per car service rules had to "be
> sent to a point on the home road or in the direction
> of the home road if there was no direct connection".
> Then, there were cars that were loaded with fuel for
> roads that had no on-line coal mines. There were also
> times when a coal company would steal (or "borrow")
> cars if they didn't have enough Q MT's. They would
> load whatever they had with coal for Q destinations.
> Also there could be cars received in interchange.
> Again keep in mind that the Q hauled a lot of coal
> from mines that it had no direct connection. For mine
> runs you could find cars that the Q was handling in
> "car haul service". In short in Southern Illinois, you
> would see a lot of IC's, MOP's and C&EI's with a few
> NYC's and Southern's thrown in, every once in a while.
> In Central Illinois, there would M&St.L's and Milw's
> too. As to types of cars, refer to BB #35. I hope this
> answers your question.
> John D. Mitchell, Jr.
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