RE: [CBQ] PRR-UP power

[Ray Bedard <tczephyr@hotmail.com>]

With all the talk about foreign power on the Q, especially on the "race track" 'burbs, did any roads "rent" Q power to run trains on foreign roads? I am aware that some Q power took the Builder beyond the Twin Cities, and that the Rock Island may have had some Q power on it's lines, but what about east of Chicago, say on the Penn, NYC, or south on the GM&O, IC, etc?

Ray Bedard

San Jose CA

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To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
From: fjr68@live.com
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 10:30:52 -0500
Subject: RE: [CBQ] PRR-UP power

Larry,

By late '66 or '67, a PRR-CB&Q-UP power pool from Conway (or Enola) to North Platte was in operation.  I'm assuming it was an extension of sorts of the 

CB&Q-UP pool that started as early as '59 or '60.   One sees shots of various combinations of hood units of the three RR's, on various trains.  Someone else

can better comment about what CB&Q schedule this might have been, but clearly the power is part of the usual pool operation.

Neat shot- thanks for sharing.

Fred R.

 

Okay, now I've got another shot here I have questions about. Anyone know/guess/speculate about what this train might have been and why it would have had only PRR and UP power (and it looks like those two middle engines are UP cabless units)?

Larry

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