Russ-
Probably an urban legend, but in the mid-sixties I heard that a yardmaster
at Cicero made a game of "collecting" foreign
road cabooses, waycars, cabins, hacks, and vans. To do this he would
arrange things so the delivering transfer runs couldn't
get to their crummies because he had buried them deep in the yard so the
crew would have to go back home engine light.
This may not be entirely true but I do remember seeing strings of cabooses
from a bunch of railroads at Clyde, and most of
them did not have any "run through" arrangements with the CB&Q so were off
of transfer runs.
BTW the UP had a few of their cabooses painted up in Silver for CB&Q pool
trains (not the M.O.W. cars but mainline cars...
IIRC they had a red "P" on the cupola).
Charlie Vlk
> Item 1: No CB&Q/BN road crew would ride in any of the Eastern
> Road's cabooses. They would be collected at Cicero and used by
> transfer crews or just sent back. CB&Q/BN road crews would use
> UP waycars and they were also sent East of Chicago.
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