Tom,
I doubt that the U.P. power was delivered in Chicago during the Q era. At the time, the state of Illinois imposed a sales tax on all capital equipment delivered in the state. No RR took delivery in the state if they could avoid it. Locomotives were always shipped dead to another state where delivery was accepted. In 1970, Illinois ratified a new constitution which eliminated the capital equipment sales tax. After that, many RRs took delivery in Chicago and worked them home on the host RR in exchange for the transportation charges. To start them in Chicago was considered delivery. Q power went to Lincoln, NE to be set up.
Bill Barber Gravois Mills, MO Sat Aug 4, 2012 9:33 pm (PDT) . Posted by:That is correct, GI 68 was an eastbound from UP - Grand Island. It seems to me that UP took delivery of New SD locomotives, some of them cabless in Chicago and the Q worked them to Grand Island. I thought it was a tax issue but who knows why we would have been thinking of that back then. I do know that the interchange trains always had plenty of well maintained power.
Tom
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