Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Weigh Station Reporting Marks

["Leo Phillipp via groups.io" <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io>]



Aurora’s scale was between the car and paint shops and the storehouse.

Eola had two scales. West yard was on the scale/waycar track just below the roundhouse.

East yard was in the middle of track ten (at least that’s what my memory is telling me. Can’t find a track station diagram right now that shows either scale.

The R.I.P. tracks in both the East and West yards were equipped for light or running repairs so reweighs there would not be associated with major repairs or conversions as done at Aurora shops. 

Of course a car could be weighed and restencilled anytime something seemed out of place about it. Might be interesting for members to learn the actual process for weighing a typical car. Hint, you didn’t just set it on the scale.

Leo Phillipp

On May 27, 2020, at 12:49 PM, Nelson Moyer <npmoyer@hotmail.com> wrote:



The other locations with Fairbank scales but without confirmed station reporting marks are:

 

Plattsmouth, NE

Aurora, IL

Ottumwa, IA

Hastings, NE

Murray Yard, MO (North Kansas City)

Rockford, IL

Rock Island, IL

Harlem Yard, MO (I don’t know the city)

Pacific Junction, IA

 

I would think Aurora and Plattsmouth would be reweigh stations, but Plattsmouth is close to Lincoln and Havelock, both of which reweighed cars. Of course Lincoln and Havelock are right there together,  so distance between scales doesn’t appear to be a consideration. Aurora is close to Eola, so do both have scales? Ottumwa was a division or subdivision point depending on era, so it would be logical reweigh cars there. I don’t know the location or Harlem yard, and it doesn’t appear in the BRHS publication index.

 

I attached the CB&Q data from the master list being revised. If anyone in this group knows of other reweigh stations, please notify me so that I can forward the data to the person responsible for updating the master list.

 

Another consideration about reporting marks is when scales were built and decommissioned. Burlington is listed as having track scales, probably for weighing grain cars because of the export elevator there and maybe stock cars, though all of the Washington branch line towns had livestock scales, but I know of no photos of track scales in Burlington and no information when they were built or removed. BB#27 covers scale houses and scale cars very well, but it is largely silent about when scales were in operation and how they were used. That might make a good Zephyr or multi-topic bulletin article, and it would be invaluable to prototype modelers who pay attention to reweigh stations and dates on their freight cars.

 

Nelson Moyer

 

From: CBQ@groups.io [mailto:CBQ@groups.io] On Behalf Of Eric Mumper
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 12:01 PM
To: CBQ@groups.io
Subject: Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Weigh Station Reporting Marks

 

Nelson and Group,

The tables do show Streator having a track scale.  I have never run across any information as to where this would be and have been doing research on Streator for quite some time.  If anybody knows where this would be, please let me and the group know.  I also have doubts this was a big enough location to do actual reweigh work on freight cars.  Thanks.

Eric Mumper

<CB&Q reweigh reporting marks.xlsx>

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