[CBQ] Re: Milw Board of Directors

[qutlx1@aol.com]

Just an obsevation.
 
Once the BN merger took place ,instead of the decades old  pattern of 3 
thru and one local each way between Chicago and St Paul, on the  Q; traffic 
grew to 10 plus trains in each direction each day.
I was there and experienced it first hand. When I would ask  where all the 
traffic was coming from I was told repeatedly that the BN merger  cancelled 
the division of eastbound traffic agreement dating from the Hill road  
merger days which had given a portion of all GN/NP traffic to the  Q,C&NW,SOO 
and 
Milw between St Paul and Chicago. I 've not seen such an  agreement but 
surely the growing economy of the early 1970s didnt more than  double traffic 
between St Paul and Chicago on the former Q.
 
While in train service in the 1970s we deadheaded  eastbound vs westbound 
20:1 so not sure the eastbound traffic was 2:1 or  the deadheading would have 
been the other way around. Now I'll state that  eastbounds were loads and 
westbounds were 90% empties but train sizes were  approx equal due to siding 
lengths.
 
Leo Phillipp


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