Re: [CBQ] Re: Q Es elephant style

["Stephen Levine sjl_prodigynet@yahoo.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

The E8s and E9s were rotated thru long distance and commuter services.  So most of these would be westward facing.  That may account for Elephant Es, particularly on westbound trains

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On Jan 11, 2018, at 11:05 PM, Edwardsutorik@aol.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

So then from Chicago all E's would be facing "outward" because of suburban service.  That DOES imply that the units were more mixed and matched than if they were assigned to particular trains.  Because there wouldn't be a need to have "outward" facing units for the long distance trains.

If, at the ends of their long distance runs, the locomotive sets were turned as a group, with or without their trains, they would also come back as similar elephant style sets.

But then that means every E that came back from a long distance run would have to be physically turned.  Is that what happened every day in Chicago?

If all that's so, I can definitely see the elephant style for long distance runs being derived from some need to have the E's westward aligned in Chicago.

Ed

Edward Sutorik

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