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Re: [CBQ] Montgomery Stock yard operations

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Montgomery Stock yard operations
From: "Russ Strodtz" <borneo@19main.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:53:24 -0600
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All,

Leo has the system down pat. Yes, that track was the North
Main heading toward Galesburg before the elevation.

One more thing to add. Somewhere along the line a beer
distributor got located in Montgomery. If the need for a
stock setout at Montgomery coincided with a SLRX car for
Montgomery being ready to leave Galesburg that beer car
would be put with the stock, usually on the head end.

While this did not always work out this way it happened
enough times to consider it the "Desired Train Makeup".

I have seen yard jobs going out to spot and unload stock
come back into Eola with over 50 empty cars. I think that
if the Lyon Metal Job did the spotting they would leave
the empties there and over time the tracks would start to
fill up.

Russ
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: qutlx1@aol.com 
  To: cbq@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, 11 November, 2007 14:45
  Subject: [CBQ] Montgomery Stock yard operations


  Rory,
   
  What follows applies to most of the yards history,not just the fifties  based 
  on what I saw and was told by those who were there over the years. I'm  sure 
  Steve can fill in any blanks from his days at the tower and at  Montgomery.
   
  Both mainline and C&I through frts set out cars of stock on the "sheep  yard 
  lead" which was exactly at the apex of the 'V' where the two lines met.  This 
  required a long back up move from the Aurora Depot to the lead. I believe  
  this track was the "old North main" from pre-elevation days and let me tell 
you  
  it was in the same condition. I wouldn't want to take a road unit one inch  
  farther than necessary on it. Light rail and cinder ballast. This could be 
one  
  interesting move if the occupants of the cars were called by nature to do  
  certain things. It was also often cold,rainy,snowing or just hot and smelly. 
At  
  least one of my "brothers" tells the story of hanging on the side of an 
  ancient  stock car while some cow let go and he climbed back up into the 
engine cab  
  soaked. The C&I crews had the longer move as they sometimes had to go out  
  over Main St before getting a reverse signal. The mainline crews could cut 
off  
  at the "stove works board" to make their move. The cars were set just in far  
  enough that the engines cleared the board(signal) to get an indication to 
come 
   back out. If there were cars already on the track you just tacked yours on. 
  By  the time I was around we were setting out only feeder cattle and sheep. 
  Nothing  was being fed and reloaded for the Chicago Stock Yards. 
  But the old timers and my grandfather often talked about being ordered as a  
  yard crew from Eola to go to Montgomery and unload 30 and 40 cars of stock.  
  Typically if there just a few cars set out the Lyon Job,Aurora job or one of 
  the  set Eola jobs would be told to go down and spot them. But if business 
was 
  heavy;  my Eola roundhouse engine assignment sheet shows extras being ordered 
  from Eola  to Montgomery for the express purpose of unloading stock. Bones 
  Mathers told of  more than one occasion of going down to spot 30 or 40 
cars.He 
  even told a story  of getting "buried" because while down at the chutes a 
  mainliner s/o another  block of cars on top of him and they had to go out via 
  Montgomery to  get around the cars. I worked the Sat. and Sun. Aurora job in 
the 
  early  70's one summer and we always had to check with both the Mainline and 
C&I  
  dispatchers before taking our early quit to ensure no stock was enroute. 
  Imagine  switching passenger cars one move and the next your shoving around 
stock 
  cars  !
  I don't recall anyone talking about going down to reload stock for Chicago  
  but for decades this would have been a normal operation.
  The mtys would go to Eola and be picked up from there. Whenever I spotted  
  stock on a yard job the stock folks from Montgomery and the Consignee were 
there 
   waiting and they did the actual unloading. See Steve's dissertation about  
  crawling into a car and unloading sheep in an early BB.
   
  Leo Phillipp
   





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