Thanks John.
Anyone know how late unit trains ran up the Pea Vine to the Twin Cities? I
model 1967-1969 and have a lot of Q hopper cars. Would like an excuse to run
unit coal trains over my Savanna-centric layout.
Also in later years what power brought the trains up? I know SD7's were the
most common power in the coal fields, but wondering what was used on longer
runs.
Tom Mack
Cincinnati, OH
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@...> wrote:
>
> 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@...> wrote:
>
>
> From: thommack <thommack@...>
> Subject: [CBQ] Re: CBQ 161019
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 9:38 AM
>
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> Â
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> 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:
> >
> > 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...
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