RE: [CBQ] Switcher Assignments [2 Attachments]

[HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>]

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Duncan:
 
Nothe era you're looking for, but here is the only complete steam and diesel switcher assignment sheet I have, and it's from November 1941.
 
Hol
 

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To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: d.cameron@sympatico.ca
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:35:34 -0500
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Switcher Assignments

 

Nelson,

Do you know how much steam power was still being used in '52?  Maybe that's what was pulling the Burlington-Washington train.

At first I couldn't figure out why there was no switcher in Keokuk in the first set of assignments and then realized it was still probably a steam switcher.

Duncan Cameron

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Nelson Moyer

To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:06 AM

Subject: RE: [CBQ] Switcher Assignments

 

Thanks, Nolen, this information gives me another local to run out of Burlington.

 

There’s one other question I have about switchers assigned to Burlington. I know that NW-2s ran to Washington, but none were assigned according to the 1952 list. I have photos of 9219, 9232, 9240, and 9246 in Washington or on the branch line in the early 1950s. Were the NW-2s considered road switchers and assigned separately? I have photos of a GP-7 in Washington in the early 1950s, so I know that road switchers occasionally made the run.

 

Nelson

 

-----Original Message-----
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Nolen Null
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 10:33 PM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Switcher Assignments

 

Nelson,

 

I don't know it for fact but surmise the key lies in the assignment listed on the 3/6/52 assignment sheet for 9135 "Galesburg -Galva-New Boston".  I'm thinking the routing would have been Burlington-Oquawka-Keithsburg-New Boston(all on the river) and then eastward Aledo-Alpha-Galva.  Generally speaking Galesburg would have been on the hypotenuse of the triangle, and hence bypassed.

 

From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Nelson Moyer
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 10:33 PM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [CBQ] Switcher Assignments

 

 

I was surprised to see 9135 assigned to Burlington-Galva. That sees strange, since Galesburg is about half way between the two. Can anyone explain this assignment?

 

Nelson Moyer

 

Attachment(s) from HOL WAGNER

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CB&Q Switch Engine Assignments, 11-1-1941, Page 1.jpg

CB&Q Switch Engine Assignments, 11-1-1941, Page 2.jpg

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