Tom,
In 1966, no railroad took delivery of locomotives in the state of Illinois if
they could possibly avoid it due to the state tax on capital equipment that
existed then. All locomotives were shipped dead in train (DIT) as a freight car
to a location outside of Illinois for acceptance by the customer. In most
cases, the DIT locomotives were placed near the head end of the train due to
weight and so that the head end crew could keep watch over them. The Great
Northern units were accepted in. Minneapolis. In 1970, the state of Illinois
adopted its new constitution which, among other things, eliminated the tax on
capital equipment. After that, many RRs begin arranging for acceptance of new
EMD locomotives in the Chicago area. Cicero / Clyde was a common location for
this to occur. The locomotives were usually started so that they could work in
consist with Q power to their final destination. Transportation charges were
exchanged for horsepower hours in agreements between the Q and the owning RR.
Whether the DIT locomotive was coupled to the road consist or not, was a
decision that the local management at Cicero would make, probably based on
instructions from the main office. Although it would be traveling as a box car,
there is no operational reason that the locomotive couldn’t be coupled to the
rear of the power consist. However, I suppose that there may have been an issue
with crew pay as they might consider it to be part of the locomotive consist
and the weight on drivers pay calculation even though it wasn’t in service.
Bill Barber
Gravois Mills, MO
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