Re: [CBQ] Double heading

[Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@worldnet.att.net>]

HOL WAGNER wrote:
> Norm:  Post if you wish.
>  
> I photographed and chased doubleheaded SW1s (9143 and 9145) on the Q 
> branch between Sterling, Colo., and Cheyenne, Wyo., in the early 1960s.
>  
> Hol Wagner
> 
>      Gerald & Virginia Edgar wrote:
>      >
>      > These very interesting posts began with the premise that
>     doubleheading was only a steam loco phenomena but we need to
>     remember many early diesels did NOT M.U.  I personally do not know
>     of CB&Q diesels being doubleheaded that were not MU'ed but there is
>     a lot of literature about the Milw using 3 & 4 non-MU'ed SW-1's,
>     each with it's own crew, to operate across southern Minnesota (a
>     line with light bridges that would not handle road units).  They
>     followed the same procedures that have been cited in the posts here. 
>      >
>      > 
>      >
>      > As for communications with even a singe engine, well into the
>     70's, BN on ex-Q trackage had crews that relied heavily on lantern &
>     whistle signals to communicate because they did not have radios (the
>     Aurora-West Chicago line being an example)   Check any CB&Q Rule
>     Book (or other RR's for that matter as the signals were uniform) for
>     all the actions that could be initated by certain lantern motions or
>     series of whistle blasts.  It's a lost art but I am sure there are
>     times today when a crew with b/o radios wish the newbies could truly
>     "communicate".   Gerald
>      >



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