Re: [CBQ] Minneapolis/St. Paul to St. Louis via the Beardstown Division

["William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>]

Hank,

The track charts show the grade is briefly 0.76% going north out of 
Prospect Hill (MP 10.39). There is another brief 0.65% grade just south 
of Bissell (MP 11.34)  and 0.57% where U.S. 66 crossed overhead (MP 
12.83). Most of the rest is about 0.4-0.5%. It leveled out just north of 
Larimore (MP 13.30). I am sure that single F unit was working as hard as 
it could and was quite a sight.
Bill Hirt

On 5/9/2021 4:26 AM, Henry Kraichely wrote:
> Mitch, sorry I sent my response prior to finishing discussing the KATY 
> train climbing prospect hill.  The sound of trains traveled to my 
> parents home due to some cuts that channeled the sound.  So I heard a 
> train coming but it seemed forever before the train reached me.  There 
> was a single F Unit pulling this freight making a few miles an hour. 
>  As it passed I began to hear a second diesel pushing this creeping 
> train up this long grade, it was an old Ballwin Switcher giving 
> everything it had to help the poor F Unit up this long grade.

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