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Re: [CBQ] Morning Zephyr ##22 on 11/7/1965

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Morning Zephyr ##22 on 11/7/1965
From: "Ed Pavlovic" <cbq168a@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 00:29:31 -0500
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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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