Fwd: [CBQ] Oregon Question

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Bob,

 

I don't see where anyone else has chimed in so here's what I can tell you about The Oregon Turn. Karl worked the job so he can share some ofl the tidbits first hand as he did in the new waycar book. I've got a couple that haven't seen print or email exposure.

 

To answer your direct question it is my understanding that the job simply  "turned" at Oregon and after about the eatly 50s brought the Kable print cars to the Aurora depot. Prior to that the mail cars were p/u by a passenger job and taken on it directly to CUS. Somehwere I have the research showing which job but I'm too lazy right now to dig it out. Turning basically means you leave the cars for the town(if you have(if any),grab whats there for you,run around them,anything you brought that goes back with you,the w/c and skidaddle. And that is exactly what the Oregon Turn did after grabbing the mail cars. The job was structured so that all short work had been done westbound and now it was a run to Aurora to get the mail cars on the back of one of the two early evening eastbound dinkies.

It was known to set some pretty impressive running times between Oregon and Aurora.

 

Westbound was another matter.Now for awhile there was a certain engineer on the job(who will remain nameless in this post) who had chickens on his small farm near Church road in Marywood just north of Aurora. This engineer was known far and wide as one of the most frugal and hoinest human beings to ever walk the earth.. He would put two empty five gallon cans in the cab at Eola and while working the elevators westbound would be on the ground picking up split grain in the cans. Often times when the trainman gave a sign there was no one in the cab to move the engine as the chicken feed had taken priority.

 

Barny Joe went over on the job as fireman and after one or two of these grain gleaning delays he had reached the breaking point. Next day  while spotting an elevator and before the engineer vould get down for the search he simply grabbed both buckets,went into the elevator,scooped up enough corn to fill both and loaded them both back on the engine.

 

I worked with this engineer a few times on a local in the 70s and he was still doing the same thing at elevators.

 

Leo Phillipp

 

Ps-For a short while there was a daily Chadwick Turn out of Eola. Now there was a high payer !

 

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Group,

I'm going to launch a two or three-part question about rail operations in Oregon on the C&I back in the 50s and 60s based on conversations I had years ago with John Schmid and Rip Repetto. So here's part one with a bit of background.

While John said any of the freights could set or pick up, RR said that set outs and pick ups were handled mostly by #83 and PU. 83 would set out and pick up at Rochelle and Oregon, while the Oregon Turn worked every town west of Eola except Rochelle. He said the Oregon Turn sometimes would set out cars at Rochelle picked up along the way rather than drag them to Oregon and then back to Eola--83 picked up the westbounds at Rochelle and PU picked up the eastbounds.

So here's the first question: if 83 and PU set out and picked up at Oregon and the local Oregon job worked the City Track, Mt. Morris and National Silica, what did the Oregon Turn do at Oregon besides haul mail cars from Kable to Eola?

Rather than muddle up the message with too many questions, I'll hold the others for the moment.

Thanks!

Bob Herrick

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