Russ,
Thanks for that. Also, I guess the CB&Q would not pre-block cars for another
road - that's their job! So for CB&Q trains terminating in a home yard, could
stock cars be put anywhere in the train? I.e. they would specifically go on the
head end only if they were required to be set out en-route, or maybe had a
tight connection at the terminating yard?
In a similar vein, were there any rules about the make-up of CB&Q trains? I'm
thinking about hazardous chemicals being kept away from eng. and w/cars and the
like. I understand that today, "compliant trains" have to be built w/r/t car
placement. Presumably this happened on the Q but under a different name?
Cheers,
Mark
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Russ Strodtz" <normansen@...> wrote:
>
> Mark,
>
> In general it was not a CB&Q policy to have stock at
> any part of a train. If a yard set it up about a train
> that was supposed to be set out in some order then they
> probably would do so, most of the time.
>
> As you can imagine it would be much more unusual for a
> CB&Q road to set a particular set out in particular
> orders for another road. Examples that I can think of
> were the DRGW and the UP at Grand Island. (Might have
> been some Westbound at Kansas City from Cicero/Galesburg
> but I am not sure). Other than that it just did not
> happen. The IHB did not do anything like that at Galesburg.
>
> The IHB crew that picked up a group of cars was preferred
> to be sent with stock on their head end. That was because
> of the hump done at Blue Island. Since that crew set out
> by the GI68 at Congress Park the IHB got their crew on the
> rear end. So for that IHB crew on that date it was about
> where there wanted it. Just luck. Yes, at Congress Park/
> La Grange the IHB had a yard and a crew there could do as
> they were told.
>
> Russ
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