Re: [CBQ] C&S Hoppers

["Leo Phillipp via groups.io" <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io>]

Thanks Bill for a look at operations back in the good old days.

1) sure looks car utilization at its finest. Get those foreign road cars loaded 
and more or less headed back in the direction of the home road to reduce per 
diem.
2) Cars are destined for interchange at Congress Park to the IHB.
3) have wonder if they all fit on the south wye ?

Leo Phillipp

> On Jul 26, 2024, at 10:54 AM, William Hirt <whirt@fastmail.com> wrote:
> Scott,
> 
> I have a consist (attached) of a train of coal from Galesbug to Inland Steel 
> near Chicago. It was a 109 car train. In the train were cars from:
> 
> SLSF, CNJ, NYC, WM, PRR, B&LE, P&LE, CGW, RI, ACL, D&RGW, N&W, CI, RDG, BWC, 
> T&P, KGB, EJ&E, and ATSF.
> 
> Considering there is D&RGW car in the consist, I do not think one could rule 
> out that a C&S hopper occasionally wandered east. It would be rare though.
> 
> Bill Hirt
> 
> On 7/25/2024 12:31 PM, Scott Frietsch wrote:
>> So I have done some more thinking about this topic and the cars offered and 
>> realized I never really answered the main question that was presented.  But 
>> first I must ask another question, where the c&s cars ever mixed in with the 
>> q cars running out of southern Illinois?  If not where did they operate or 
>> where trains of Colorado coal brought east in unit trains or small car 
>> blocks?  If they stayed on the C&S in unit train service one must look at 
>> the amount of modelers that would be interested in such a car for a regional 
>> railroad that disappeared for the most part about 54 years ago.  The easiest 
>> and cheapest version of the challenger imports 2-10-2 to find is the c&s 
>> version.  I believe most of the Q modelers I have met generally model the 
>> lines east.  The conclusion I have come to is that the only car worth buying 
>> out of all these offered new run broadways are the orange ones as they will 
>> stick out in a train of mineral red and Chinese red and draw in someone’s 
>> eye thus a better detailed car would be nice.
>> Scott Frietsch
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> <CB&Q Ex East Willis Yard 24-Dec-65.pdf>
> <Extra East December 24 1965 Galesburg to Chicago.xlsx>



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