[CBQ] Re: Switchers in Road Freight Consists

["Winton" <wyhog@yahoo.com>]

I don't know about the Q since I didn't leave the PC for the BN's former Q at 
Sheridan, WY until 1974... but up until I retired in 2009 we had an SW15 at 
Sheridan for the yard engine. (I often had to fight to keep her here and the 
minute I was gone so was the SW15). The 92 day inspections were done 320 miles 
away at Glendive, MT. Sometimes our SW15 was MU'd (idling but off-line) to the 
road power of the thru-frt-local, taken to Laurel MT, then put on another 
freight to Glendive. But more often it was simply MU'd behind the power of a 
unit coal train because they went directly from Sheridan to Glendive bypassing 
the MRL Laurel Yard. It would come back a few days later MU'd to an empty unit 
coal train.
Its temporary replacement unit was handled in the same manner. This temporary 
unit was often another SW15 or an SW12 but sometimes just a GP28, GP15, etc. So 
it was not at all unusual to see SW's MU'd to the 4 or 5 coal train locos which 
over the decades were U30C/SD40-2 to SD60M to SD70MAC to C44/GEVO to SD70ACe.

Winton



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