Re: [CBQ] Grain boxcar trains

["Winton via groups.io" <runextra=gmail.com@groups.io>]

Once back in the late 1970s or early 1980s there were two tracks full of empty 
covered hoppers in Gillette yard for 2 weeks or so. Those hoppers prevented 
train meets at Gillette so eastbounds had to be held at Oriva the first siding 
west of Gillette. When I am 7 miles from Gillette at 5am all I want to do is 
get to Gillette and get to bed in the crew cribs. I got REAL TIRED of being 
held out because of those grain cars clogging the yard. I had read or heard 
that the RR was extremely short of grain cars so I called the car Dept and 
asked if that was true. Whoever I talked to was adamant that they needed a lot 
more cars. I told him I knew where he could get about 100 of them that had been 
sitting there for almost 3 weeks. He was said he would look into it. Two days 
later on my next run to Gillette all of those cars were gone. And once again we 
could get straight into Gillette, tie up, and go to bed :-)


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