RE: [CBQ] Re: North Coast Limited over CBQ

[Ray Bedard <tczephyr@hotmail.com>]

When trains from the west came into CUS, doesn't matter if it was the NCL, EB, CZ, TCZ, etc or even a suburban run, all the trains entered CUS engine first. AFTER all the passengers disembarked, the consist was backed out, with switcher engines used on the long haul trains (NCL, EB, TCZ etc.)

After they were turned around, cleaned and ready for the next run west bound, they were backed in, most often by a switcher. Then the E units were brought in to make ready for the westbound run.

In suburban service, the push-pull trains usually operated with the engine heading westbound and the galley cab cars operated eastbound, most but not all the time. When they arrived at CUS, galley cab cars first in, they often remained at the platform, did a quick clean up and then headed out westbound on the next suburban schedule.

I road the Q between Berwyn and CUS 3 times a week, sometimes more often, between 1953 to 1959. Have taken many photos along the 3 track "race track" and remember this well.

Ray Bedard

San Jose CA

> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> From: shyguy_98665@yahoo.com
> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:28:36 +0000
> Subject: [CBQ] Re: North Coast Limited over CBQ
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> 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.
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> Earl Poulsen
> Vancouver, WA
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> --- 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 I’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?
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> > RSVP
> > John Phillips
> > Seattle
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