Another well known and photographically documented helper district was west out
of the Omaha depot, where long heavyweight passenger trains required a pusher,
normally the depot switcher, meaning an 0-6-0 in steam or an SW-1 or NW-2 in
the diesel era. Freights using that route also sometimes required helpers, and
they were generally added ahead of the road engine; an O-5 with a diesel
switcher ahead of it was not an uncommon sight.
Hol
> To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
> From: holpennywagner@msn.com
> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:09:42 -0600
> Subject: RE: [CBQ] Helpers
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> There were a good many such places on both Lines East and Lines West. An
> example of the former was on the Beardstown Division, north out of the
> Illinois River valley up Browning Hill T-1 2-6-6-2s were used until replaced
> by the T-3 2-8-8-2. On Lines West, the L-1
> 0-10-0s were purchased for pusher service on Crawford Hill in northwestern
> Nebraska, up the grades out of Edgemont, South Dakota, and on the Cambria
> coal spur out of Newcastle, Wyoming. There was also a helper grade eastbound
> out of Sheridan, Wyoming. And there were a good many more.
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> Hol Wagner
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> From: soocarman79@yahoo.com
> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:25:03 +0000
> Subject: [CBQ] Helpers
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> Considering the territory the Q operated in. Was there a place on the system
> that required helpers regularly because of the grade? I don't think I've seen
> or read anything about this.
> Mitch
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