Does anyone know if the Builder and the NCL back into CUS or locomotives first?
I ask this because I have seen railfan videos taken over Roosevelt St.of trains
reversing or going locomotive first then coming out the opposite.
Earl Poulsen
Vancouver, WA
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, rgortowski@... wrote:
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> I believe the official opening date for CUS was in mid-1925.
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> Rich G.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charlie Vlk <cvlk@...>
> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thu, Mar 29, 2012 2:37 pm
> Subject: RE: [CBQ] Re: North Coast Limited over CBQ
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> John-
> That is a question that has been bothering me as well..
> The best explanation Iâ??ve been able to come up with is that the CB&Q was
> using the old Union Station and they did not have enough capacity to take on
> the NP trains.
> I believe the shift to the CB&Q over the C&NW corresponds to the opening of
> the new CUS. Might also have something to do with the competing GN trains
> already using the CB&Q.
> Charlie
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> All-
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> The NP Historical Association lists 1911 as the year the North Coast Limited
> went through to Chicago -- but over the CNW. As the NP/GN had the Q in their
> pocket for about a decade at that point, why the _NCL_ was going over the
> North Western is a bit confusing. Does anyone know what date the _NCL_
> shifted over to the Q?
>
> RSVP
> John Phillips
> Seattle
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