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Re: [CBQ] Train order delivery

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From: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:47:50 -0700 (PDT)
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Doug
Generally.  Trouble was keeping the flow of traffic moving.  ie;  the freight coming out on main two at Levergne after a eastbound dinky went by and still being able to move the westbound dinky.  Or in later years before I retired in 09 was to run the eastbound dinky on main 1 with the Quincy Bullet up the middle.  Amtk would often catch the dinky and even sometimes smoke him on the middle while the dinky went in on main 1 with the next outbound on main 1 after he arrived. Rather then either crossing over in front of each other.  The Idea was to get the trains over the road and out of your hair.  We once had Milw Rd detours from the Quad Cities to Ottumwa and just moved them only to get nasty letters from Upper management because we were moving them too good and the pilots did not rest out in time.
Steve in SC


From: "dhartman@mchsi.com" <dhartman@mchsi.com>
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Sent: Mon, April 29, 2013 9:54:45 AM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Train order delivery

 

Thanks. I thought I remembered coming out on 2 once in a while (but I know the "parade" was tightly orchestrated). Which brings this question: did the dispatchers take into account an operator having to hoop up with other traffic close?

Doug

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From: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
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Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 20:32:12 -0700 (PDT)
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Most of the Hill Yd dinkys used main 3.  It was on main 2 I hooped up Waybills at Congress Park.
One nite I could see a westbound dinky on main 1 with me standing in the middle of it to get the bills to the freight on main 2 But he got there and got the bills before the dinky left Brookfield.  Luckily you could watch and get ready to get out of the way.
Steve in SC


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Sent: Sat, April 27, 2013 1:56:33 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Train order delivery

 

Steve,

And back to your post about hooping up to Hill Yd's on middle at Eola - ever have one coming down main 3 while you were on that catwalk?

Doug

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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:57:12 -0400 (EDT)
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Looking at a phto of a passenger train picking up orders in the most recent TRAINS...or maybe it was CLASSIC TRAINS..they both came today...I thought of the agility and bravery it must have taken to hand up to a short passenger train at high speed.  You had one hoop in one hand for the engineer and the other two leaning against your body to grab as soon as the head end had his...You would have have to been "jiffy quick" to drop one and grab the other two to get one to everybody on a short train like the PZ.
 
Lenny or Steve...any "tales" to relate in this regard.??
 
Pete
 



 
-----Original Message-----
From: Kujawa's <xark@mtco.com>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:37 pm
Subject: [CBQ] Train order delivery

 
Hi All:

worked for the Peoria  and Pekin Union for a while and was the operator at
P&PU Junction (Telegraph call NF) at the east end of the P&PU yard. We
handled train orders for the N&W and Illinois Terminal and at one time the
Pennsy. The N&W handled a lot of High Wides out of Caterpillar for the east
coast. We usually put the orders up in the Ironman holder. This was a steel
structure that held the orders in the Y shaped holders. There were at three
different heights, engineer on top, flagman in the middle and conductor low.
We only used the top and bottom.

Being new with no experience I hung the orders not thinking about the wide
load Cat D10's in the train. The engineer grabbed his orders and the Ironman
would automatically drop the Y down so it wouldn't get caught on anything or
be in the way of the conductor. We were supposed to be outside to watch for
problems when the trains went by. Luckily I was on the correct end on the
train when one of the Cat D10 dozers grabbed the conductors orders. I made a
quick grab to get them back and handed them to the conductor when he came by
and no one saw my rookie mistake.

After that I always watched for wide loads in the list.  Working at Pekin
Tower on the south end of the P&PU, I used the Ironman for the engineer but
always used the hand held Y for the conductors. The Ironman was located on a
curve and  you just never knew what might be hanging out on long cars. The
only exception was the C&IM coal trains which were always 50' coal cars.

Roger Kujawa
Morton, IL.
See my AGW Rwy at:

 


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