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Since the UP didn't get into Chicago until later they had to get their locos onto their property somehow and the "Q" was good a way as any. We saw all kinds of foreign power in the shop at Lincoln. When I was working in Lincoln one of the diesel shop foreman told me that there was a power sharing arrangement between us and the UP. The UP seemed to be in deficit often, so there were many "Q" trains that ran UP power to make it up.
From: Tom Lynch <thje@nntc.net> To: "CBQ@yahoogroups.com" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, August 4, 2012 11:33 PM Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: PRR-UP power 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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