A quick scan through Burlington Bulletin #33 (which you need to borrow or buy - available through BRHS - see www.burlingtonroute.com) seemed to confirm my recollection that such a configuration would
Scott, Marshall, List - These "train control boxes" were actually Automatic Cab Signal equipment boxes for use in service from Union Avenue to Savanna Yard. The only use of ATS/ATC I know of, is on l
Cab signals/Mars lights - Ed Rethwisch and I came to the conclusion that as a "Rule of Thumb", if a steam engine had cab signals, it had a Mars light; not visa versa. Mars lights probably applied fir
As far as the date of the C&NW's ATC installation, they installed it between Chicago and Council Bluffs in 1926-27. I seem to recall the subject of C&NW ATC equipped Q engines having come up on the l