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The waycar on No. 14...there is one photographed at Red Oak, iA was because 14 handled several "piggyback meat loads" on the rear end..The WC provided a place for the flagman to ride right on the rear end ready to perform his flagging duties if necessary. Pete
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From: qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wed, Jun 14, 2017 10:30 am Subject: Fwd: [CBQ] was Silk and Berry Special Trains/now Rider Cars To expand on my response to Rupert below are a few specific examples I found of rider
Cars.
DATE. TRAIN. RIDER CAR. LOCATION IN TRAIN. COMMENTS
7/20/60. 29. Q 1491. 3 from rear 3/17/61. 3. Q 6306. 3 from rear/7 from H.E.
3/18/61. 7. Q 4500. Rear car. Train has a wheel car
12/15/61. 1st 29. Q 2326. 5th from rear.
;See below
1/4/62. 7. Q 4540. Rear car.
8/9/62. 14. Q 1491. Head car. Waycar 13953 on rear
9/62. 29. Q 1430. See below
All these trains consisted of baggage,RPOs,etc except the rider cars.
On #29 the cars behind the rider were in inverse station order so the rear car could simply be cutoff at Galesburg,Ottumwa,Creston,etc.
The wheel ca
r #7 was Q 21482.
Record doesn't say if the waycar on #14 was dead heading or from where. In those days of assigned waycars deadheads caused crew handling issues. Especially if a crew was deadhead westbound to Savanna. The crew would generally ride a passenger train from Aurora to Savanna and have 13-14 hours left to work back on split rest if needed. But
Their waycar may not be into Savanna in time for the eastbound trip.
There were also internal arguments as to when the deadhead crew goes back into the first in/first out rotation when they deadhead in either direction w/o their waycar.
Leo Phillipp
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