Re: [CBQ] Re: Terminal Transfers

["Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Leo..That system (deliver and return light) was in effect for the RI at Blue Island...I never heard of any "flipping"...it was the same deal all the time..RI deivered to connections and came back light..Connections delivered to RI and went back light  all the time...Except of course RI delivered to BRC and brought back cars from  there...Also interechange was not always deivered and/ or pulled at the actual yard..RI pulled from Wabash someplace around 87th st and C&EI someplace near Oakdale??  Also deivered cars toCSS&SB someplace over by Kensington.

Pete

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From: qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wed, Dec 10, 2014 7:13 pm
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Terminal Transfers

 

Maybe I was unclear. It is my understanding. Supported by numerous photos in the various Q and Chicago focused books and also written material. The 6 month rule prevailed for many decades. Road A took a transfer to B and went home w/c lite. Road B took a transfer to A went home w/c lite.

Then after 6 months they flipped  who brought the cars to each other.

Leo Phillipp

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On Dec 10, 2014, at 11:23 AM, " runextra@gmail.com [CBQ]" < CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

>For many decades their was the 6 month agreement on terminal transfers. This applied to all terminals in North America... The agreement stated road A would deliver to road B a transfer and return to their terminal Caboose lite. After that road B would come to road A's terminal w/c lite and pick up the transfer. Of course the flip,side applied also. In essence transfer crews operated Way car lite half the day.

I got to thinking about the above statements and I don't see how that worked? Cars have to be transferred in both directions every day. As I said in my previous post, by the late 1960s we were hauling cars in both directions on transfer runs in Cincinnati. If at some time previous to that transfer crews were only hauling cars from their own yard to another yard then returning cab-hop to their own yard that means the other yard had to be doing the same thing at the same time or else no cars would ever go the reverse direction. So where does the 6 month rule come into play? I can see a 6 month rule if terminal A transfers cars in BOTH directions for 6 months then Terminal B transfers cars in BOTH directions for 6 months. That eliminates the cab-hops.
But cab-hops AND a 6 month rule makes no sense to me. Wh at am I missing?

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