Re: [CBQ] Re: CBQ 161019

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

Yes, that was the exact route for those early unit trains (circa 1963). It has been a long time but I believe the destination was a plant of Northern States Power. They didn't run on any kind of regular basis. Long term supply contracts between coal companies and utilities were a couple of years away, so everything was on what we now call the "spot market".

--- On Wed, 4/10/13, thommack <thommack@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: thommack <thommack@yahoo.com>
Subject: [CBQ] Re: CBQ 161019
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 9:38 AM

 

John,

From your post it sounds like the unit trains went north to Galesburg, then up the Pea Vine to Savanna, and on up to the Twin Cities?

Tom Mack
Cincinnati, OH

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@...> wrote:
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> 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.
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> --- On Tue, 4/9/13, John Stell <stell_john@...> wrote:
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> From: John Stell <stell_john@...>
> Subject: Re: [CBQ] CBQ 161019
> To: "CBQ@yahoogroups.com" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Tuesday, April 9, 2013, 10:11 PM
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> From: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@...>
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
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> Subject: Re: [CBQ] CBQ 161019
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> These old hoppers are in ballast service and can not be interchanged due to the 40 year rule.
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> --- On Tue, 4/9/13, mtskidmark <mtskidmark@...> wrote:
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> From: mtskidmark <mtskidmark@...>
> Subject: [CBQ] CBQ 161019
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, April 9, 2013, 7:55 PM
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> caught this old Q hopper in the consist of #MKLFPAS on Sunday:
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> http://mtskidmark.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3439080
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> Mark in Oregon
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