Tom
Like Russ says Mendota to Denrock. Between Sterling and Denrock you had to go
over the CNW Sterling to Agnew to get back to home rails and on to Denrock. If
you know what you are looking at you can see it along now I 88(or you could
last time I was up in that neck of the woods)
In the 1974-1983 BN era if you worked the Chicago Chief's position in the
Cicero Dispatcher office you had to figure out the tonnage ratings on the
trains coming south from Northtown. All river grade from North town to
Savanna. If you did not have enough power and could not steal some from
another train you would have to run it "Around the Horn" Which meant down the
"Peavine from Savanna to Denrock then over often also called the 9th Sub
Denrock to Mendota. This came in just west of Mendota and over the Mainline
Mendota to Aurora. A lot of Galesburg crews could not operate that way but the
Aurora Crews could.
Can't remember what year the locals all were renumbered in the BN Compass
computer and they all had to be named. The Local from Eola to Savanna(via
Mendota) then back to Eola on the C&I(Savanna to Aurora) got the name "Horny
Local"
sjh
----- Original Message -----
From: thommack
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 8:44 PM
Subject: [CBQ] Denrock Sub and around the horn
In 1967/68 when trains ran "around the horn" from Savanna to Chicago
through Denrock, which route would they have taken out of Denrock?
1. Denrock to Earlville through Sterling, Rock Falls and Paw Paw
or
2. Denrock to Mendota through Walnut?
What trains would have run this route from Savanna or Chicago in
1967/68? I know the iron ore/taconite trains from Mpls-StP to Chicago
(and back) went "around the horn", but were there any other scheduled
freights that used the same route in 67/68?
Tom Mack
Cincinnati, OH
P.S. Hope to meet everyone in Dubuque, but will have to see how my new
job is going...
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