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Re: Pool Power with GN and NP on the Q. I’m unaware of a power "pool" with NP. The GN scrap that handled #88 into Clyde and #97 out of Clyde was running off "equalization" miles to offset the mileage accrued by the Q E units that turned at Havre, MT. I’m not sure if "Horsepower Hours" had been invented yet. As I stated in an earlier post, the units selected for this "equalization" service were in the most deplorable condition one can imagine. To digress, it must be remembered that for a good portion of the time period in question I was workin’ the Fireman’s Extra List out of Aurora and, while so doing, I was not in a regular Pool Turn. The trips in the C&I freight pool that I did work on 97 and 88, however, were usually all alike in that the power was as bad as any I’d ever worked on. I recall one set of GN units that cycled back and forth on 88 and 97 in particular. This set, and there may have been others, had a semi-permanently coupled FT A and B included in it. The prime mover in the B unit had, at sometime in the past, suffered a crankcase explosion. The pieces and parts of the engine were piled up behind the main gen. in the area sometimes occupied by a steam generator. The general condition of the engine, and the engine room, led one to believe that the explosion had occurred quite sometime ago. I worked this consist on several trips and the dead B unit remained as it was, DEAD !! Karl __._,_.___
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