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1. RE: [CBQ] unit coal trains - equipment trusts (score: 1)
Author: Gerald Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:01:23 -0600
You bring up a great point John. Every day another vestige of CB&Q disappears (dismantling of the famous Burlington bridge) so the lesson learned is to take those pics as you never know 'when' it wil
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-11/msg00296.html (20,742 bytes)

2. Re: [CBQ] unit coal trains - equipment trusts (score: 1)
Author: Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@att.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:14:32 -0700
While it may not have been the first railroad to run unit trains the Denver & Northwestern was completed in 1903 for the purpose of running unit coal trains from Leyden CO to Denver CO. Norm Metcalf,
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-11/msg00300.html (13,019 bytes)

3. Re: [CBQ] unit coal trains - equipment trusts (score: 1)
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:04:51 -0800 (PST)
Yes, but the ICC did not allow muti-car rates until the 60's. The Southern Railway ran the first true unit trains i.e. with unit train rates and rules for  coal in Circa 1961.   While it may not have
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-11/msg00304.html (12,854 bytes)

4. Re: [CBQ] unit coal trains - equipment trusts (score: 1)
Author: John Manion <railbass@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:11:29 -0700
The Southern was responsible for one of the major changes in rate regulation by the ICC in the early 1960s with "Big John," a 100-ton aluminum covered hopper which allowed grain to be carried in long
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-11/msg00312.html (14,263 bytes)


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