Great find documenting the wye Bill. I’ve wondered if C&I/CB&N power would have run through prior to turn of century system unification of the various separate roads. Existence of the wye at that early date would likely indicate locos turned back.
As to Henry Fruits statements about the mixed being based at Forreston my partial review of ETTs would indicate that is correct.
1895: mixed #30 departs Forreston at 6PM arrives Oregon 7:10PM
The westbound mixed depts. Oregon at 9:35PM arriving Forreston 10:15PM.
There’s a round trip passenger job between Chicago and Forreston with morning departures and afternoon arrivals at each end( no pause at Oregon or train number change) so that’s got to be two crews with layovers.
1925: ETT #43: two round trip mixed Forreston to Oregon.
#42 departs Forreston 6:27A arrives Oregon 7:10A
#51 departs Oregon 105P, arrives Forreston 2:05P
#44 departs Forreston 2:55P, arrives Oregon 4:05P
#47 departs Oregon 9:20P, arrives Forreston 10:15P
The crew is on duty just about 16 hours with just a hair over 8 hours off. This is very similar to the arrangement I documented in the Bulletin article on the Sterling Motor car crew.
By 1934 there’s one round trip a day based out of Oregon to Mt Morris. In 1937 same thing with a 15 minute start time change.
Leo Phillipp
On Jun 25, 2022, at 12:55 PM, Q5632West <bill.diven@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello again:
In answer to my own question about whether the CB&N built the wye in Oregon, I've done a little more digging and think the answer is yes. The wye appears in the attached excerpt of an Oregon town plat published in 1892 off what would have been the CB&N tracks built in 1886.
Bill
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