Perhaps the equipment you're referring were the U.S. Department of
Energy, Albuquerque Operations Office LO's, and such guard cars as G23.
The Official Railway Equipment Registers have rosters of them.
They were used for shipments to and from the Pantex plant near Amarillo
TX. The trains you're referring may have come from Fernald OH.
Norm Metcalf, Boulder Colorado
On 10/10/2010 06:09 PM, Dan Grobe wrote:
>
>
> Well, I guess I'll chalk this up to lost to history. Seems like it would
> be ab interesting move to model.
>
> Dan
>
> --- On Fri, 10/8/10, Dan <dlgrobe@ameritech.net
> <mailto:dlgrobe%40ameritech.net>> wrote:
>
> From: Dan <dlgrobe@ameritech.net <mailto:dlgrobe%40ameritech.net>>
> Subject: [CBQ] Atomic trains in the 50s
> To: "CBQ@yahoogroups.com <mailto:CBQ%40yahoogroups.com>"
> <CBQ@yahoogroups.com <mailto:CBQ%40yahoogroups.com>>
> Date: Friday, October 8, 2010, 7:28 AM
>
> Over on the EJE list one of the guys was recalling working an atomic
> train in the late 50s. The J picked the train up from the NYC and
> delivered it to the CBQ. Does anyone have any info on the train and
> maybe photos of the cars used? I'm including his comments below.
>
> Dan
>
> Richard: I do not remember his name, that is a shame . We used to bull a
> lot at Kirk Yard on layover. We both were out of East Joliet. I wish I
> could remember, maybe I will.
>
> If you can remember back in the 50's nuclear was new. We had
> a run we called the Atomic train. It consisted of about 10-12 flats with
> Silver Lead containers on them, one to each flat. Believe me they were
> heavy. There was also a passenger car with them, and it was full of
> ARMED troupes. Any how, we ( I only caught it once) would pick it up at
> porter yard. We would be called and have to wait until the NYC delivered
> it. The only thing they would let us do is to couple up, we could not
> cut in the air, this was done by armed Soldiers.
> When we were ready, we stopped for nothing, I mean at Griffith
> and so on every thing stopped as we came through.
> When we got to East Joliet Yard, they had us all switched
> through, and we did not stop. We would take it to Eola and drop it off
> as the CB&Q did the same. What was nice was that we made three days pay
> in two. That was real over kill.
>
> Chuck
>
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