Re: [CBQ] Savanna Yard East End Switching Leads

["Bud Linroth" <wcman8@gmail.com>]

Hello Tom and Group.  I was on #89 and we were called by radio and told to stop at Erie and unload the car of stock we had next to the engine.  I had never seen any stock at the Erie stockyard since my first trip North in April of 1971.  The agent at Erie last name was Melby and I got a clue of what was ahead of us when I saw his hip deep wading outfit like what trout fishermen might wear.  Once we spotted the car, he opened the door and all heck broke loose.  I am trying to find some words to describe it but the bottom line was they all wanted to get off at the same time.  Some came down feet first some slid down sideways, it was total mayhem.  We left the car there and continued on to Savanna.  I believe it was late 1972 or early 1973.  Bud Linroth.

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 8:02 AM Leo Phillipp via Groups.Io <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io> wrote:

The stock pens were in use well into the mid 1970s. I have a photo of the eastbound C&I wayfreight spotting stock at Polo that had rested at Savanna sometime in early 70s.

Toward the end stock would come in from the North, be unloaded at Savanna and trucked to Milledgeville as one example.

Leo Phillipp

On Dec 11, 2018, at 7:53 AM, Tom Mack via Groups.Io <thommack=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:

On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 11:26 AM, Bud Linroth wrote:

Hello Tom and group.  The wood structures (pens) are the stockyards and the wood small building is a section house or a trackriders motor car  house.  The stock yards had a stub track running east off of the yard lead.  If you had stock on the rear end, the switch engine would be in the clear on the stockyard track and would stop the train when it cleared the switch and reach out and get the way car and the stock and spot it for unloading.  The stock from Galesburg came in on #89 which terminated at Savanna.

Thanks Bud and others who have responded. Does anyone know how late #89 actually brought stock to Savanna? Would the stock pens have been used in the late 1965-1970 range?

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Tom Mack
Cincinnati, OH

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