GN Power on
Burlington rails was actually quite common at various
times. A good resource for this is the last chapter (?Great Northern ?
Tourists on Foreign Lines? of ?Great Northern Color Pictorial ? Volume 2 ??
authored by Joseph W. Shine and published by Four Ways
West.
GN power
shows up on the C&S, FtW&D, CB&Q, as early as 1958. Sometimes it
was leased, sometimes it was pooled.
At one point
in time, CB&Q E7?s handled the Empire Builder from Chicago all
the way to Havre where they were swapped for F units out of the GN passenger
pool for the trip to Seattle and back. On the return
trip, the swap was reversed and the Q E?s handled the train all the way back
to Chicago.
In return, GN
F units on some Eastbound freights were not swapped out in St Paul
but ran all the way to just outside of Chicago and
return.
There were
other arrangements in place in anticipation of the various merger dates.
Some arrangements were discontinued as the merger was delayed again, some
continued.
The pics in
Shine V2 show GN power in various places on the Q system ? worth a look for
anyone interested in this topic.
Best
regards,
Steve
Steve
Haas
Snoqualmie,
WA