[CBQ] Re: unit grain trains?

["brucec34rr" <brucec12@comcast.net>]

I'm sure someone else would have a more definitive answer but I don't see any 
unit grain trains shown in the Burlington Lines Operating Sheets book from 
1968. I do see in my Great Northern Freight Cars book(vol 2 by Scott Thomson) 
that they strted experimental grain units trains to the Northwest in April 1968 
with PS 4,740 covered hoppers so CB&Q may not have started them before the BN 
merger.

Bruce

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, jeff worones <jworones@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all;
>  
> Did the Q ever run units grain trains?
>  
> I know they ran unit coal trains, starting with the 'silver sides' and then 
> the 'green worm', but what about grain?
> By the mid 1960s the RI was making multi-car grain rates, but I haven't read 
> anything similar about the Burlington.
>  
> Thanks!
> Jeff
>  
> Jeff Worones
> Seattle WA
> 
> 
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> 
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