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(erielack) Re: 74, meat, run thrus
Jim and Group,
NE-74 connections off CB&Q (then BN) were as follows:
82 from Twin Cities and Pacific northwest
64 from Denver
66 from Grand Island (Runthru off UP from North Platte)
68 from KC
All of these trains (in fact, most hotshots arriving Chicago from the west)
were due around midnight. Cutoff for receipt of this traffic at 51st St was
5am. There it was reclassified; the NE-74 groups were 15-via Maybrook (icers
on headend), 18-NY Term. By 1973 groups 16-Mahwah and 17-Port Jervs had been
added. Traffic to other destinations went later on TC-100, PN-98 and 78.
64,66 and 68 were reblocked at Galesburg and could be combined there on
light traffic days. The EL block was probably created there, then traffic
off 82 was added at Cicero. The schedule says "Locomotives operate between
St Paul and Croxton".
There was another CB&Q train from KC #70 due Cicero at 1pm. If it had any
meat trailers they were rubbered to the EL for movement on NY-100 or Adv 100
when it was running.
The power pooling did achieve better loco utilization but the main reason
for the runthroughs was to save time. Cars interchanged in Chicago the usual
way could spend days there, where as the NE-74 arrangement shaved it down to
9 or 10 hours.
Paul B
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "JG at graytrainpix" <graytrainpix_@_hotmail.com>
To: <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>; <erielack@lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 9:19 PM
Subject: RE: 74, meat, run thrus
> Paul,
>
> Just speculation, but I vaguely recall being told that the primary CBQ /
> BN connection to NE74 was from Kansas City. That would arguably be an
> evening departure. I do recall seeing NE74 at the time with meat reefers
> and refrigerated trailers; not many, maybe 4 to 8.
>
> Were the EL power pools via Chicago (BN, RI) an attempt at faster service
> thru Chicago, or more an equipment efficiency arrangement (as with the PC
> pools thru Maybrook then later Utica)?
>
> Jim Gerofsky
>
>
>>From: "Paul Brezicki" <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>
>>To: "EL Mailing List" <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>,"Jim Gerofsky"
>><graytrainpix_@_hotmail.com>
>>Subject: Correction, Re: Advance 100
>>Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:56:32 -0400
>>
>>Jim and Group,
>>
>>Advance sections of NY-100 also operated fairly regularly in the first
>>half of 1974 when PC's terminal contractor Penn Truck Lines was having
>>labor problems. They would begin loading it in the morning and complete
>>the job after breaking to unload CX-99. This advance train would depart in
>>the afternoon assuming crew and power were available. Presumably there
>>were also extra sections of wb counterpart NY-99. I don't think NE-74 was
>>part of the "meat initiative" as it's scheduled mid-morning Chicago
>>departure was too early for most of the meat trailers received from
>>connections.
>>
>>Paul B
>
>
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