Leo,
There might be dispatcher sheets (maybe in the archives yet to be
cataloged), but wheel reports for northbound extras on the C&I have
never surfaced. I have one or two eastbound extra wheel reports
Galesburg-Chicago from the mid-late 1960s. These were loaded coal trains
headed to Inland Steel. Russ Strodtz posted what he had on the old Yahoo
Rail Freight group (which I should note that Yahoo has now all deleted).
It seems most wheel reports that have surfaced are because they just
happened to be taken home after a run, tossed in a box or the like, and
then were left to be resurfaced many years later when cleaning things
out. This far away from that time I have a lot of doubt additional wheel
reports will resurface.
Bill Hirt
On 4/10/2021 11:29 AM, Leo Phillipp via groups.io wrote:
Do dispatchers sheets, wheel reports, etc exist for these extra north trains ? I ask because
I’m wondering if it wasn’t so much an accumulation of empty boxcars at Cicero(where
extra tracks were scarce and interchanges were rapidly switched to make room for the next) than it
was seasonal moves of grain empty’s going back to the northern plains. Keep in mind much
grain still moved by rail back then before river transportation took the lions share of the business.
Leo Phillipp
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