Bob,
I've thought about this Q/CAE/IHB traffic and may have recalled something that could possibly partially explain it.
The Q/IHB interchange at Congress Park was primarily on the South Wye. The IHB pulled the track and headed for Gibson, IN with it as most of the traffic was produce,meat,livestock going to the east coast. Possibly this "dead freight" was routed to avoid a IHB backhaul from Gibson back north(west) on IHB.
Leo Leo,
I have the Great Third Rail. I was looking for the Q's layout of the yard to see if it matched, but your description confirms. I've looked at the BRHS interchange report for 1948 and compared it to the CA&E's revenue reports and was surpised at how much traffic was interchanged at Aurora. For example, the CA&E's reveune report for January '48 shows 110 loads of coal delivered from the Q to the IHB via the CA&E and 43 loads of coal delivered to B&OCT the same way.
Bob
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