Mark
Look at the list Russ put up of Train No. 88 out of Northtown with the stock.
STOCK loads would have been on the head end to avoid injury from Slack Action
But even then the stock was all mixed up. The train would have been worked for
sure at Savanna as the 00143 is the Savanna Station Number and those stock cars
would have been set to the stock yard there. It would have been interesting to
see how the stock was moved out of Savanna. IE. if their was a train to
operate "Around the Horn"(via Peavine to Denrock and then to Mendota) This
would have allowed the Earlville stock to be set out there on the way by.
Otherwise they would have all been set out at Montgomery and then backhauled to
Earlville.
The rest of the cars in 88 are in block order using the Station Numbers 00033=
Eola 00009 = Cicero
SJH
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From: Mark Bristow <markbristow251@btinternet.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 6:03:10 PM
Subject: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q GI68 Galesburg IL to Congress Park IL
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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