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Re: [CBQ] Atomic trains in the 50s

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Atomic trains in the 50s
From: Dan <dlgrobe@ameritech.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 21:48:03 -0500
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Thanks Norm. This does help out. All of this is a bit early for my knowledge 
but would this train taken the the Q all the way to Amarillo via the FWD?

Dan

On Oct 10, 2010, at 8:45 PM, Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@att.net> wrote:

> 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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