Bill,
This was the way things were handled in 1959.
#73, which was the main Westbound pickup at Congress Park,
depending on what year you are talking about, terminated at
either South Omaha or Council Bluffs. It was not a Lincoln
train. In 1959, to the best of my knowledge, the BRE cleaning
track at Pacific Jct had not even been built yet, thus none
of the cars on these trains are destined to Pacific Jct.
>From a financial standpoint who handled the empties was
important as reefers were on a time/mileage per diem basis
and someone had to pay that bill.
In 1959 the Grand Island connection with UP was not handling
any through traffic. At about the same time that the schedules
were changed to make that happen most UP-C&NW interchange
shifted to Fremont. Council Bluffs was being routed around and
it still is today. BNSF to IC coal trains are interchanged at
Sioux City to avoid UP's bridge fees.
After that change was made PFE started to put pressure on the
Eastern roads to accumulate and block Westbound PFE empties
and route them via the C&NW. While this was not exactly beneficial
to the C&NW it's what the UP wanted and they got their way. As to
the PFE loaner cars they pretty much continued to move reverse
route. During the Summer and Fall we would continue to get the
BAR's or whatever while the PFE's went to the C&NW.
Russ
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From: clipperw@EarthLink.net
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, 24 August, 2005 10:44
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Digest Number 2504
Russ,
I understood what you were saying about PFE cars and their routing
until I saw your list of IHB deliveries to Congress Park. Now I am
confused. Why would PFE cars be routed to Council Bluffs on the Q when
there is a IHB/CNW interchange just a few miles north? Who makes that
decision concerning return routing? It would seem that the C&NW
interchange would be more direct to CB. I believe that the Q would have
to switch the cars once more at P. Jct. unless they had a specific
train from Chicago to Council Bluffs. In the late 1950's, the most
common Q/UP interchange would seem to have been Grand Island.
Bill Barber
On Wednesday, August 24, 2005, at 06:05 AM, CBQ@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:52:59 -0500
> From: Russell Strodtz <19main@groundcontrol.us>
> Subject: Re: Reefers Question
>
> Paul,
>
> Take this in steps:
>
> 1. AT&SF was the only major road that seldom if ever pooled cars
> with other roads. While with diversions and shipper's selection of
> routings you may see a car here and there it would not be a lot.
> Since AT&SF did have Freight House loadings that needed to go to
> the GN or NP they delivered to Cicero almost every day. Often
> their Freight House loading would be done in SFRD's. Would be
> more likely to see a group moving North than East or West.
>
> 2. The one Eastbound train that I have posted recently was LC70.
> That train originated at South Omaha and was specifically run to
> attract the hanging meat business. While it might have had an
> occasional PFE they would not be common on that train.
>
> 3. Have recently posted list for three IHB to CB&Q deliveries.
> They give a better idea of the mix of initials that normally
> moved.
>
> 4. The solid PFE trains on the SP and UP is largely lore rather
> than data. For the entire Summer and Fall they were pooling with
> just about anyone that had fan type cars except the AT&SF. Just
> looking at the books I have that showed trains on that route the
> car next to the engine is not always a PFE. They used BAR's entire
> fleet for about nine months of every year.
>
> 5. As the trains moved further East the cars got scattered. A CB&Q
> train leaving South Omaha would have a pretty solid block of just
> a few types of meat reefers. On the other hand think about a NKP
> train leaving Hammond headed East. While it may be solid reefers
> they would be a total mix from all the roads that come into Chicago
> from the West.
>
> 6. A caution. When you are talking about PFE cars in the late 60's
> they would only be going East. Westbound they would be rather rare,
> although not entirely missing. Why? PFE made a deal with the Penn
> Central and C&NW to move them West in solid blocks. While the other
> roads continued to get normal business volumes going East the C&NW
> returned most of the empties.
>
> I will type up and post another Eastbound train. This time it will
> not be LC70.
>
> Russ
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