Re: [CBQ] High/Wide Loads

["Douglas Hosler" <dehosler@frontier.com>]

Thank you for that story, Leo! 

The only thing I recall along that line I probably don’t have quite right.  But once ridding a commuter between Chicago and Naperville, I noticed a westbound freight train proceeding on the south most track (I forgot the track numbers).  That puzzled me and I asked a trainman.  He said it was because of clearance issues.  

Doug

Doug Hosler

On 9/29/18, 3:15 PM, "Leo Phillipp via Groups.Io" <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io> wrote:

> Steve's post about the Boeing cars being restricted as wide loads has brought to mind a couple things.
>
> 1) high/wide loads came in many forms and caused a lot of extra work for many people/departments. All the physical measuring, then checking against engineering clearances, routing plans, messages to crews, numerous attachments to waybills(sometimes several, pages in length,etc,etc. For a real insight into the shear tangled web of high/wide loads don't miss the BRHS Bulletin 56 article on the Earlville Turn and the "difficulties" that arose one night at Caterpillar in Montgomery,IL. It's coming to BRHS members later this fall.
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> 2) one night we picked up westbound at Eola and in the slug was a wheel loader on a flat destined to somewhere in the Pacific NW. As we left Eola I perused the waybills. Now generally a high/wide,load had any numbers of messages,clearances,colored notes, etc. attached to the waybill. In addition with your train orders would be a message stating # such and such is picking up car so and so at X and this car "MUST NOT.........".
> We had no such message, and as I read the waybills there was nothing attached to any of the bills. But my eye caught a bunch of text in the comments section of the bill for the wheel loader. There in the fine print was typed"this load will not clear the highway bridge at Polo,IL. Car just be routed via Galesburg, Denrock and Savanna. We were going out the C& I via Rochelle,Oregon,Polo,etc.
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> So I got on the radio and advised all concerned of what I had just read. We ended up setting the car out on the incline track at Spring St in Aurora before proceeding out the C & I. I've often wandered who's behind would have been in the hot seat if we'd have given that nice new shiny end loader a big hair cut ?!
>
> Leo
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