Jeff,
The Milw line you reference was their line over to Ayers where it joined
the Peavine(Savanna-Galesburg) and onward. Not sure how the lines was
protected pre CTC but after there were searchlight signals on the main and pots
on the yard leads. There is a great new book on the Peavine with great maps
of Savanna. Search the archives as its been discussed on this list.
Based on my memory in the early BN days of the early 70s Savanna had 3
shifts with one engine and days had 2. Switching was done on the east
end(south) of the yard. I dont think I ever saw a place more ideally laid out
for
flat switching. All they really needed was the slack and cars would gently
roll into the tracks.With the long leads and gentle slope the crews could
run through cuts of cars very rapidly.
Most work involved breaking up the inbound locals and secondary trains
into the outbounds.
One example would be the large numbers of "west" cars from
Rochelle(Carnation and Del Monte) that came in on #181 and then #353 in the
early morning.
These would go out on the secondary train to Galesburg that afternoon.
I've previously told how in the days of assigned waycars that operation
was handled at Savanna. With crews going in 3 directions; it must have kept
an engine somewhat busy doing waycar swaps.
Leo
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