Charlie,
Would think that would be an urban legend. By around 1974
it was all PC could do to get a train into Cicero without
dying. It was rather easy to collect foreign power and
cabooses. No one was keeping track of any hp/hours on this
stuff. They had broken the Switchman's Agreement about road
crews delivering quite a while before BN did. They rather
often went from the West end of the receiving yard directly
to their motel, which was over by Corwith.
We still got transfers from 59th Street with yard crews but
even those moves often ended at Cicero. It's no different
today. That cab ride home beckons and once you know it's
coming all motivation to accomplish anything seems to vanish,
Russ
----- Original Message -----
From: Charlie Vlk
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, 01 November, 2005 10:28
Subject: Re: [CBQ] NYC/PC "Pool Power"
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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