Leo
It's not as good as I thought it was...After I wrote I realized that I had
added a step which would have messed the whole thing up...I said that the RPBU
while picking up at Joliet would hang onto his Illinois shorts out of BI...That
would have really messed things up...He just made the pickup in the usual way
with just the engine. That way the furthest away short would be first out
behind the engine and the "shortest short" would be on the rear end of his
pickup which would cause it to come against the head end of the train he had
which is where his "shortest short" out of BI would be...
I don't know how they handled any pickups they made down the line since that
"wasn't my territory".
I don't know how the name..."Dutching" came about....One of those old railroad
names that nobody knows from whence it came.
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: qutlx1@aol.com
To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, Feb 14, 2010 5:32 pm
Subject: [CBQ] Streators ahead of Ottawas
Well Pete I'd say your memory is just fine. Thanks for sharing. Yes The Q
did something similar but we didn't have enough smarts to give it a
nickname(rare on the Q). When there was a Eola P/U the Streators would be ahead
of
the Ottawas so everything came together at Ottawa.
Leo
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