Re: [CBQ] Light? at end of NE12 caboose

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

AT Blue Island the yard track next to the track where we made up the hotshots and really anything else going out to the west was  the designated track for what we called "westbounds"..these were low priority loads, empty reefers going home and other misilaneus of what we called "sluff"  After the road train was made up and the "outfreight" engine was ready to grab the caboose  (they were all assigned at the time I was there) the YM would tell the engineforeman..."Get the caboose and grab a reefer off track ?? and make him a "good rear end".

Pete

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From: qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Light? at end of NE12 caboose

 

Pete that "good rear end" was an unwritten rule on the Q but under BN  it was history. Though out of Cicero and Savanna I saw YDMs make the extra move to have a low car ahead of the waycar.

Leo

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On Nov 3, 2015, at 3:39 PM, "Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

A good yardmaster would see that he gave the train  "a good rear end".   That beiing a reefer, flatcar, tankcar (non flammable commodity.   At Blue Island on the Rock Island conductors would, shall we say...express unhappiness if given a "high car" ahead of the waycar.  A "good rear end"  was one thing that could normally be done to keep the "expessions of unhappyness" to a minimum.  

Pete

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Light? at end of NE12 caboose

 

The NE 12s had a large red Mars light at the center of the roof at each end,used as a end of train marker.  Also They,along with the NE 10s ,were equipped with electrical outlets to use on the later standard markers equipped with lights and an oil pot.

By the way I personally feel the NE 12s were the best riding of all BN way cars in the 1970s. The one drawback was if the cupola was against the train and the rear car was a high car it was harder to watch your train. By this time most of the Mars lights were inoperative and often not even capable of being turned on. I do recall at least one car with the Mars light working.

Leo

On Nov 3, 2015, at 12:24 PM, Richard Sutcliffe ras1@uniserve.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

I am modifying one of the Bachmann cabooses into one of the NE12 steel cabooses.
Above the end platforms, under the end of the roof walk there is a fixture that appears to be a light.
The “lens" is red in the photos I have seen.
Is this in fact a light, or some other warning device?
How and when was it used?
There also seems to be a light fixture in the upper corners of the end walls.
Were these active, and used for what?

Dick Sutcliffe
General Manager
Bradley, Roger & Tidewater Rwy.
Cariboo Traction Company

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