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Re: [CBQ] EMD SD45 Demonstrators on the Q

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] EMD SD45 Demonstrators on the Q
From: "William Barber" <clipperw@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 11:02:14 -0500
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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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