The TP&W brought some of these into the Peoria, IL. area. My brother and I
saw one leave on the Peoria line to Galesburg after the BN merger. Not sure
if the TPW ever gave any to the Q before the merger.
Roger Kujawa
Morton, IL.
> ________________________________________________________________________
> 1a. Re: Atomic trains in the 50s
> Posted by: "Bob" drgw18@gmail.com rsgrzw
> Date: Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:56 am ((PDT))
>
> Norm, could also be the shipments going to the
> Rocky Mountain Arsenal guarded by the "infamous"
> SCL combine, 666. (Said car being placed on the
> CZ at least once - the CZ had HW cars more than a few times).
>
>
> At 08:45 PM 10/10/2010, you 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
>> <<mailto:dlgrobe%40ameritech.net>dlgrobe@ameritech.net
>> > <mailto:dlgrobe%40ameritech.net>> wrote:
>> >
>> > From: Dan
>> <<mailto:dlgrobe%40ameritech.net>dlgrobe@ameritech.net
>> <mailto:dlgrobe%40ameritech.net>>
>> > Subject: [CBQ] Atomic trains in the 50s
>> > To:
>> "<mailto:CBQ%40yahoogroups.com>CBQ@yahoogroups.com
>> <mailto:CBQ%40yahoogroups.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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> ________________________________________________________________________
> 1b. Re: Atomic trains in the 50s
> Posted by: "homanfamily" homanfamily@fuse.net ptrckhoman
> Date: Mon Oct 11, 2010 8:29 am ((PDT))
>
> I can't answer the routing question but the Amarillo railroad museum has
> some of the cars and may be the best place for nformation.
> Pat
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan" <dlgrobe@ameritech.net>
> To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 10:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [CBQ] Atomic trains in the 50s
>
>
>> 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.
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