Re: [CBQ] Re: Digest Number 5610

[RWA325@aol.com]

Thanks, Bob.  Were F-units ever assigned commuter duty?  Ever run into a Ron Pluth in DG?

Regards,

Bob Arthur

 

In a message dated 7/30/2013 2:13:34 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, amtrak347@aol.com writes:

 

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, RWA325@... wrote:
>
> Bill (Barber),
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> In the summer of 1961, I rode a CB&Q commuter from Chicago to Downers
> Grove ..... What was likely pulling it in those days? ......
>
> Thanks,
> Bob Arthur
> Princeton, NC

Bob -

CB&Q commuter service was completely dieselized in September, 1952 and the west end commuter terminal moved from Downers Grove to Aurora. You would have most likely had some type of EMD "E" unit (E7,E8 or E9)for power. Doubtful that an E5 or GP-7 would have been powering your train in 1961.

Bob Campbell
Bixby, OK

PS - I lived down the street from Bill Barber, right across from the yard on Warren Ave.

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