Leo,
Would this possibly be the passenger derailment in Lee? I remember seeing some
of Mike Schafer’s slides of that derailment but I can’t remember when that
derailment happened other than it was before Amtrak.
Ed
> On May 26, 2021, at 9:58 PM, Leo Phillipp via groups.io
> <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io> wrote:
>
> In the current (Summer 2021) issue of Classic Trains there is an article
> about a passengers’ round trip from Dubuque,IA to Washington, D.C. and
> return. The author states that while riding #22 on 11/7/1965 the train
> detoured via Denrock and Mendota,Illinois to Aurora/Chicago. The Aurora
> division operating employees referred to this as “going around the horn”
> instead of the direct route via Oregon and Rochelle,Illinois. Does anyone
> have info. as to what happened somewhere between Aurora and Savanna on the
> C&I/CB&N to cause the detour ?
>
> When you read the article the author references the extra effort put out by
> the La Crosse and Aurora Division Conductors to hold his Chicago PRR
> connection. When that failed arrangements were made for a B.&O. connection.
> He doesn’t distinguish that he would have dealt with two Conductors as
> Savanna depot was the trade off point for passenger crews .
>
> One last point, the detour would not have required pilots as the Aurora crews
> were qualified and routinely operated Savanna-Denrock-Mendota-Aurora. In fact
> only the Savanna-Denrock segment was non Aurora division trackage.
>
> If you are interested in learning more about what a railroad pilot did/does
> watch for Burlington Route Historical Society Bulletin #65 late this year.
>
> Leo Phillipp
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