Re: [CBQ] Eastbound Oregon Turn in 1967

["qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Tom,

Your understanding is correct. The Oregon Turn was NOT advertised to go to Mt Morris. That said they could go if there was a need but it would generate a nice big arbitrary payment. The box cars look to be standard 40 footers for lumber and grain,not paper service cars. What is probably occuring is the Oregon Turn has runaround his train and has shoved back onto the Mt Morris cars with the Waycar. 

Once the job was ready to leave Oregon eastbound they usually made a straight run to Aurora in order to get the mail cars onto one of evening dinkies.

Leo

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On Jan 13, 2015, at 9:04 AM, thommack@yahoo.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2490372 

The caption on this photo reads "CBQ EB OREGON TURN COMING OFF MT.MORRIS BRANCH OREGON IL will tie on rest of train and head back to Aurora with expedited mail car on rear" So is it likely that the actual Mt. Morris job left these cars here for 226 to tie onto after coming from Eola, or might 226 have actually worked the Mt. Morris job? It was my understanding that GP7's did take over the Mt. Morris job at some time from the normal switchers (NW2's or SW's), but that the Oregon Turn from Eola did not actually work the Mt. Morris job.

I thought normal operation would be that the local Oregon unit (a switcher and later on a GP7) would work Mt. Morris, leave its cars for Eola on the branch line lead, then t ie up on either the Carnation or downtown lead. The Eola turn with a GP7 would come in, leave inbound cars on the southern sidings, then pick up the local cars (e.g. loaded sand from Unimen) for Eola from the southern sidings and the cars from Mt. Morris from off the branch line lead, and then head back to Eola. Repeat next day, etc...

Tom Mack

Cincinnati, OH

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