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Re: Fw: (erielack) EL and Major Interchange Partners and SF-100
You might be right about the Burlington/CB&Q 100. However, the last trick
Buckley/Yard C job would see a half dozen trains or more on busy night and
as I indicated a trains would yard with CB&Q power as well as Santa Fe,
Milwaukee and less occasionally Rock Island power. Maybe that led me to
conclude incorrectly there was Burlington 100. Many a night the traffic
would be so heavy that we didn't even get our twenty minute lunch tie up.
At that time a fair amount of of the New England traffic appeared to be
military loads. We would switch flat cars that had small gun turrets on them
that looked like they for use on something along the lines of a light
destroyer. Also, one night a special military train showed up just before
daybreak that yarded in shop 1 by the roundhouse. It had about a half dozen
or more of these solid gray boxcars with military markings and passenger car
on the rear. When the shift ended and we tied up across from the roundhouse
there were guards around train with shotguns but they were not wearing
military garb. We were told the train only moved at night. Is there any
record of special military train movements on the EL in the late sixties. I
always wondered what that train was carrying. Can only guess.
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Brezicki" <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>
To: "EL Mailing List" <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>; "Jim Gerofsky"
<graytrainpix_@_hotmail.com>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 6:40 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: (erielack) EL and Major Interchange Partners and SF-100
> RI-100 and M-100 (Milwaukee) were generally combined out of Chicago, but
> on heavy days would run as seperate trains. So including SF-100 you would
> have three trains arriving at Port Jervis at around the same time with the
> same classifications. However are you sure about Burlington-100? I've
> never come across this symbol. The CB&Q (later, BN) runthrough was NE-74,
> which unlike the other trains was a morning departure from Chicago,
> arriving Port in early afternoon. On heavy days there was a seperate
> CB&Q-74 train on a similar schedule which may on occasion have run all the
> way to Port.
>
> Paul B
>
> From: "John Adams" <jadamserie5_@_nycap.rr.com>
> Subject: Fw: (erielack) EL and Major Interchange Partners and SF-100
>
> Having worked as a switchman in Port Jervis late sixties up to 1970, the
> last trick Buckley's/Yard C job would also switch the Milwaukee 100 and
> Burlington 100 besides the SF-100 and RI-100. These trains would yard in
> PJ
> with front half mixed NY division and New England freight while the back
> half would be solid Jerseys'. The yard crew would pull the front half and
> classify it into various NY division blocks (WJ, BT, etc.) while the New
> England freight was classified into four blocks. The classified NY
> division
> freight would be added back to the Jerseys' or a solid Jersey train would
> be
> put together and depart for Croxton. The New England blocks got built up
> to
> become CB-2 which would depart PO between 5 and 6 am most mornings.
>
> On occasion these 100s would show up with that railroads power. The first
> time I saw GP-30 it was the power on a Burlington 100 that arrived PJ.
>
>
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