All of the CB&Q wheel reports I've seen are due to someone (in this case
Russ Strotz) saving old teletype consists and switchlists. I tend to
doubt this was intentional and the ones saved were thrown into a pile of
unrelated paperwork and found later when sorting through the paperwork
stack. I am sure there were file cabinets full of such things kept into
the BN era at various yards and depots, but have long since reached a
landfill site.
Some railroads had a policy that these consists were business secrets
and to be disposed of immediately after a run. I've seen on the PRR
lists that this was PRR policy and to date no one has ever come across
an actual PRR freight consist from the teletype era.
I know the MP Society has a number of wheel reports as Ed Hawkins when
he was editor devoted an entire issue of their society's publication to
going over it and the associated rolling stock. This dovetailed with the
Railway Prototype Cyclopedia publication that Ed and Pat Wilder were
doing at the time. Ed wrote in that issue if their was interest, they
could do more. But since no more has been done about it, I would assume
there was not much interest.
I love these consists lists, but I also realize I am in the .01% of
model railroaders who are.
Bill Hirt
On 7/16/2020 7:47 AM, Tom Mack via groups.io wrote:
The Archives discussion on the BRHS group made me think again about
CB&Q wheel reports. I have only seen a few CB&Q wheel reports and I am
surprised we don't have more out there somewhere. Does anyone out
there have CB&Q wheel reports in their own collections that need
scanning/transposing? I am especially interested in late 60's wheel
reports for the C&I.
--
Tom Mack
Cincinnati, OH
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