and Bill, we're old!
> On Jul 16, 2020, at 9:33 AM, William Hirt <whirt@fastmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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