Re: [CBQ] CBQ 161019

["John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>]

Just another use for these old warriors! It makes me feel old because I remember them as the newest thing on rails for the Q. I remember it as if it was yesterday, seeing the first one hundred 100 ton hoppers loaded at the Zeigler #3 mine in mid-July, 1963. It was a huge deal with all kinds of Q officials in attendance. Doesn't seem like it was almost fifty years ago! The train was put together in the north yard at Christopher and for road power had three of the new GP-30's (the only ones, in Q days, that I ever saw south of Centralia) and had a new NE-13 waycar. It went to a power plant in the Twin Cities area. It was the first coal moving on unit train rates on the Q. I got to ride in "The Buick" hi-rail car (over the highway) with Ass't Superintendent Wyburn Traut from the mine to the north yard to see the train pull out.

--- On Tue, 4/9/13, John Stell <stell_john@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: John Stell <stell_john@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CBQ] CBQ 161019
To: "CBQ@yahoogroups.com" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tuesday, April 9, 2013, 10:11 PM

 

The ones I have seen have been loaded with used ties.  

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From: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] CBQ 161019

 

These old hoppers are in ballast service and can not be interchanged due to the 40 year rule.

--- On Tue, 4/9/13, mtskidmark <mtskidmark@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: mtskidmark <mtskidmark@yahoo.com>
Subject: [CBQ] CBQ 161019
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, April 9, 2013, 7:55 PM

 

Hey-

caught this old Q hopper in the consist of #MKLFPAS on Sunday:

http://mtskidmark.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3439080

Mark in Oregon

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