Re: Fwd: [CBQ] Fwd: [BRHSlist] Yard Track Numbering System Question

[rksmes@q.com]

List- I believe that the answer regarding the "gas company track" that went to an electric generating plant is that the plant first made gas.  Coal was heated to create gas for many years and the spent coal product was coke that was sold.  Homes contained gas pipes and gas lights before electricity.
Bob Sorensen

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Subject: Fwd: [CBQ] Fwd: [BRHSlist] Yard Track Numbering System Question

Pete,

 

You are absolutely correct(as usual). At Eola there's a track that is in

essence a extension of yard 1 and or 2 in the west yard. It's still

referred to as the "new track". It's been there for over 40 years that I know of

and when I asked,many times, in the 70s when it was put in,no one could recall !

Then there was the old east rip,the old west rip and to keep things simple the

new west rip.

 

But it wasn't just yard and side tracks.... I often wondered how many guys

understood the history behind saying "we're on the C&I", or "set them out on

the CB&N" or "use the IV&N" main.

 

Industry tracks were even more notorius for never changing. I've written a

full length article on the "Irish Mail" job for future BRHS useage. No one

could tell you how or why the job had that name any longer. One track was called

the "cooperage" for a barrel mfg. company that had gone out of business

about 80 or 90s years earlier. And then there was the "Aurora Greenhouse

track" that went to an mty lot.

 

To really top it off in a more distant article on the "Alley Job" there's

the "gas company" track that went to an electric generating plant coal unloading

tipple. Or the "Fox River track" that was about a city block from the river

with a major street in between. Or the CA&E interchange trk that dead ended

in a lumber yard.

 

The new man was somehow expected to know where to put the cars when

somebody used one of these names!

 

Leo Phillipp

 

Ps-Unlike some model layouts there were no name tags between the rails and

the Q didnt put out a "SPINS" book.

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