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

[Stephen Levine <sjl_prodigynet@yahoo.com>]

Everytime I arrived at Chicago Union Station on a Burlington train, it always came in locomotive first.

 

In June of 1966, our 20 car DZ came in 3 hours late from Denver, due to mechanical problems by Yuma, CO.  Thus the run through track was not available to us.  Accordingly, the cars behind SC7, the slumbercoach I was riding, were uncoupled and brought in on an adjacent track.  But the remainder of the train still went in loco first.

--- On Fri, 3/30/12, rgortowski@aol.com <rgortowski@aol.com> wrote:

From: rgortowski@aol.com <rgortowski@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: North Coast Limited over CBQ
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, March 30, 2012, 11:24 AM

 

Art,

 

Are you saying that the Q would turn the train before they let the people off at CUS? 

 

Rich G.

-----Original Message-----
From: Art Peterson <artpeterson38@yahoo.com>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Fri, Mar 30, 2012 11:17 am
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: North Coast Limited over CBQ

 

Over the course of the years before Amtrak I saw both approaches utilized: most of the time it was locomotives first, especially if the train was running late.

Art Peterson

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From: "rgortowski@aol.com" <rgortowski@aol.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: North Coast Limited over CBQ

 

Earl,

 

In arriving, they would come in engine first.  After all had exited, the switchers would pull the cars, turn and wash them, then take them to the 14th steet coachyard. for cleaning, etc.  When the train would be placed in CUS for loading, it would be backed in, either by switcher, or by road power, depending on express/RPO requirements.  CUS was a stub ended station except for two tracks that were used to get over to the North side (mostly used by the PRR.)

 

Rich G.

-----Original Message-----
From: The Danish Duke <shyguy_98665@yahoo.com>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Fri, Mar 30, 2012 10:28 am
Subject: [CBQ] Re: North Coast Limited over CBQ

 

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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> 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 Iâve 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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> 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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> John Phillips
> Seattle
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